A SURVEY ON THE ESTABLISHMENT OF PATIENT-FRIENDLY SAFETY STANDARDS IN URMIA UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES

Patient safety is a serious global challenge and a very important aspect of health care quality. In addition to inflict pain on humans, unsafe care, also brings heavy economic costs. Our study aimed to evaluate the Establishment of Patient-Friendly Safety Standards in Urmia University of Medical Sciences

 This is a descriptive-analytic cross-sectional study that was conducted in hospitals affiliated to Urmia University of Medical Sciences in 1397. Data were collected using compulsory standards checklist that is used by World Health Organization (WHO) to assess patient safety in hospitals through observation, interviews and reviewing documents in selected hospitals of Urmia. Data were analyzed by descriptive and analytical tests (one way ANOVA) using SPSS-22 software. Then, based on the Compliance level with infrastructures of patient safety, hospitals were classified into three levels of poor (lower than 50%), medium (5o-75%), and good (higher than75%).

The overall compliance level of patient safety infrastructure mean with (61.42 ± 3.75%) was evaluated intermediate in studied hospital. The leadership and management with the highest mean (66.29± 2.3%) was evaluated average and the patient and public involvement domain with the lowest mean (49.17±2.38%) was evaluated weak.

In total, the overall compliance level of patient safety infrastructure was evaluated intermediate in studied hospital. Given that acquiring hundred percent of critical standards in in the four domains are essential to be considered at the basic level of patient safety friendly hospital. Therefore, Necessary investments in strategic and operational planning must be considered in order to achieve 100% standards in the four domains.