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
Methods & Materials: 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%).
Results: 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.
Conclusion: 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