ArticleDrug, healthcare and patient safety2020
Areas of Potential Improvement for Hospitals' Patient-Safety Culture in Western Ethiopia.
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- Patient safety culture in public hospitals of Ethiopia: A systematic review and meta-analysis.PloS one · 2025Pooled it
- Clinical handover experience among nurses working in Ethiopia: phenomenological qualitative study.BMC nursing · 2025Article
- Patient safety culture in resource-limited healthcare settings: A multicentre survey.PloS one · 2025Article
- Validation study of the Amharic version Safety Attitudes Questionnaire (SAQ) in public hospitals of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia: a cross-sectional study.BMC health services research · 2024Article
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- Patient safety culture and associated factors among nurses working at public hospitals in Gamo Zone, Southern Ethiopia.BMC health services research · 2023Article
- Status and Factors Affecting Patient Safety Culture at Dilla University Teaching Hospital: A Mixed-Method Cross-Sectional Study.Risk management and healthcare policy · 2023Article
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Abstract
backgroundPatient-safety culture is an important component of health-care quality and currentlyan issue of high concern globally. In Ethiopia, little is known about patient-safety culture in hospitals. We assessed the patient-safety culture and associated factors among health-care workers in public hospitals of East Wollega Zone, western Ethiopia.
methodsThis institution-based cross-sectional study was conducted among 421 health-care workers selected using simple random sampling from March 4 to March 29, 2019. A standardized measuring 12 patient safety-culture components was used for data collection. Data were cleaned and entered into EpiData version 3.1 and analysis done using SPSS version 25 (IBM). Bivariate and multivariate linear regression analyses were performed. Significance was set at 95% CI and
resultsThis study revealed that the level of patient-safety culture was 49.2% and patient safety culture-component scores ranged from 29.2% for nonpunitive responses to error to 77.9% for teamwork within a hospital unit. Age ≥45 years (
conclusionOverall scores for patient-safety culture were low. Improving the current state of patient safety in public hospitals would require tailored interventions to address low-scoring components, such as nonpunitive responses to error.
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