Patient Safety

INTRODUCTION It is important to secure patient safety in today's medical system, but safety incident of patients who violate safety regulations is added each year. Until recently, a report (Wakefield & Iliffe, 2002) entitled "Make a mistake as a person and build a safer health system" by the Institute of Medical Research (IOM) is strengthening concerns about patient safety. According to this report, approximately 44,000 to 98,000 people died each year due to medical errors, most of which are preventable.

The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the patient safety culture of five general hospitals in Belgium. Safety culture plays an important role in improving the safety of hospitalized patients. The questionnaire of the patient safety culture hospital was distributed to five general hospitals throughout the hospital. It evaluated the aspects of safety culture of 10 patients and two outcomes. The score is expressed as a percentage of positive answers to patient safety for each dimension. The survey took place from March to November 2005. A total of 3,940 respondents (total responses including 2,813 nurses and assistants, 462 doctors, 397 physiotherapists, laboratory and radiology assistants, social workers, and 64 pharmacists and pharmacies) Rate = 77%). Assistant In all hospitals, I found that the plus score of the dimension is as low as the average. Team work in the hospital got the highest score (70%)

Safety culture has been shown to affect patient safety in healthcare. The United States and the UK have been studying aspects of reflecting the safety culture of patients in the medical care environment of the family, but this has not been achieved so far in Canada. Differences in health systems between these countries and Canada may affect related aspects here. Therefore it is important to identify and compare aspects of the United States and the UK in relation to Canada. The purpose of this study was to investigate the dimension of the safety culture of patients related to Canadian family health care and to compare the dimensions found in Canada with the dimensions found in previous studies conducted in the United States and the UK It was to judge whether there are differences and similarities. Qualitative analysis was carried out using a focus group of family clinics and complementary main stakeholders.