The survey of patient safety culture among nurses in hospitals affiliated to Zahedan university of medical sciences in 2014

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Author	Sarhadi, Mahdieh Sheikhbardsiri, Hojat Navideyan, Ali Sarhadi, Razieh Abdollahyar, Asma
Copyright Year	2014
Abstract	Patient safety is regarded as a main and important part of healthcare quality (1,2). It is also considered as a main human concern in healthcare field (3). Studies show that patients are in the risk of adverse incidents (4). Adverse incidents and medical errors are challenges which have involved health care systems of all countries. Therefore, an attempt is necessary to decrease their induced damages and minimize them (5). Although many efforts have been done by different health care organizations to minimize them, but clinical errors are still common and need considerable human resources and costs to be circumvented (3). There are many countries which have seriously concentrated on the task of preventing or decreasing medical errors to promote safety level due to the very high severity of their induced damages (5). Improving patient safety is considered as a paramount importance and health care organizations have put it in their agenda since 21th century (6). Also, hospital leaders are increasingly impressed to develop safety culture of their organization (7). Patient safety is determined as avoiding or preventing of injuries and illness which effects of health care processes (8,9). Epidemic data indicate that patient safety is a worldwide problem (10) and safety improvement is considered as an international and common authority (6). It should also be noted that too much efforts have also been carried out since the publication of medicine report. However, studies show that 55% of patients are not satisfied with the quality of care and 34% reported that they or one of their family members experienced a medical error (11). Such errors can encompass medication errors, a surgery on the wrong site, using wrong technique, post-operative complications, The survey of patient safety culture among nurses in hospitals affiliated to Zahedan university of medical sciences in 2014
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