Assessment of the Patient Safety Indicators in the General Hospitals of Ahvaz University of Medical Sciences Based on who Protocol Named " Assessment of Patient Safety in Hospitals"

Patient safety indicators analysis is a tool to improve safety in hospital. The aim of this study is to assess the patient safety indicators. The present study is descriptive and cross-sectional. It has been conducted in three hospitals of Ahwaz University of Medical science in 2013. The informationgathering tool was the assessment of Patient Safety protocol published by World Health Organization. Data gathering carried out through Structured Interview and checkking patient safety. Data was analyzed by the means of descriptive and analytical tests via spss software (sample t-test and Kruskal-Wallis Test). The findings of the present study showed that total average score were about 0.76, 0.55 and 0.27 for required, basic and advanced indicators, respectively. C Hospital acquired the highest score (52%) and A hospital took the lowest score (%46) between the studied hospital. The highest scores for required, basic and advanced indicator were achieved by the hospitals named B (0.8), C (0.56) and A (0.26) acquired the highest score. In the studied areas observed that, safe environment (59/3%) and continuing education (22/3%) had the highest and the lowest accordance with standard,respectively. In the area of studied continuing education and patient participation need special attention and it seems that Promoting education, creating opportunities for patients to participate in treatment and commitment of top management cause change of attitude employees and safety improvement. It is suggested in order to implement patient safety standards, valid indicators should be developed for assessing the situation and identifying deficiencies of patient safety in hospitals then with comprehensive goal setting to removing barriers to patient safety result in improving safety in hospital.