Investigating the effect of patient safety training programs on the rate of hospital staff safety errors

In healthcare environments, increasing patient safety and reducing safety errors is of great importance. These errors can have irreparable consequences for patients and negatively affect the quality and trust in healthcare. Therefore, patient safety training programs have become important in order to prepare medical staff to diagnose and prevent safety errors. In this study, we investigate the effect of patient safety training programs on the reduction of safety errors of employees of a private hospital in Tehran .

two different training methods, i.e. face-to-face training (class and face-to-face training) and virtual training (use of training videos) were used to transfer safety knowledge to employees. And the amount of safety errors in spring and summer seasons was collected through the documents related to error reports .

The results show that both training methods have been able to increase the knowledge of employees. However, face-to-face training has created a significant improvement in the knowledge of employees and reduction of safety errors compared to virtual training, and finally, the comparison of the amount of safety errors in the two seasons showed a significant decrease.