ArticlePloS one2022
Safety culture and adverse event reporting in Ghanaian healthcare facilities: Implications for patient safety.
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- Assessing Patient Safety Culture and Adverse Events Reporting Among Nurses: A Cross-Sectional Study in Ghana.Global journal on quality and safety in healthcare · 2025Article
- Perceptions of organizational effectiveness in public hospitals: Insights from frontline healthcare workers in Ghana.SAGE open medicine · 2025Article
- The future of patient safety in Ghana: challenges and opportunities.Frontiers in health services · 2025Article
- Adverse event reporting and patient safety: the role of a just culture.Frontiers in health services · 2025Article
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Abstract
introductionRecognizing the values and norms significant to healthcare organizations (Safety Culture) are the prerequisites for safety and quality care. Understanding the safety culture is essential for improving undesirable workforce attitudes and behaviours such as lack of adverse event reporting. The study assessed the frequency of adverse event reporting, the patient safety culture determinants of the adverse event reporting, and the implications for Ghanaian healthcare facilities.
methodsThe study employed a multi-centre cross-sectional survey on 1651 health professionals in 13 healthcare facilities in Ghana using the Survey on Patient Safety (SOPS) Culture, Hospital Survey questionnaire. Analyses included descriptive, Spearman Rho correlation, one-way ANOVA, and a Binary logistic regression model.
resultsThe majority of health professionals had at least reported adverse events in the past 12 months across all 13 healthcare facilities. Teamwork (Mean: 4.18, SD: 0.566) and response to errors (Mean: 3.40, SD: 0.742) were the satisfactory patient safety culture. The patient safety culture dimensions were statistically significant (χ2 (9, N = 1642) = 69.28, p < .001) in distinguishing between participants who frequently reported adverse events and otherwise.
conclusionPromoting an effective patient safety culture is the ultimate way to overcome the challenges of adverse event reporting, and this can effectively be dealt with by developing policies to regulate the incidence and reporting of adverse events. The quality of healthcare and patient safety can also be enhanced when healthcare managers dedicate adequate support and resources to ensure teamwork, effective communication, and blame-free culture.
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