Patient safety climate in public hospitals in Northeastern Brazil

International Journal of Development Research

Volume: 
10
Article ID: 
20006
5 pages
Research Article

Patient safety climate in public hospitals in Northeastern Brazil

Maria Edileuza Soares Moura, Rafael Carvalho de Maria, Marianna Sousa Alves Araújo, Ricardo Clayton Silva Jansen and Andreia Castro de Sousa França

Abstract: 

We conducted a cross-sectional, descriptive, and quantitative study to assess the patient safety climate from the perspective of nursing professionals from five public hospitals in the state of Maranhão, Brazil. We applied the Safety Attitudes Questionnaire to a sample of 390 participants. Data were processed using the Statistical Package for Social Science version 22.0 and examined by analytical statistics. We found that patient safety climate was below expectations in the studied hospitals. We also identified that professionals are exposed to fragile working conditions for quality. Moreover, using the instrument's domains, we identified areas that need to be strengthened. Therefore, we recommend that the state and institutional managers adopt strategies that end a model of healthcare that is prone to error. We also recommend that the nursing staff is more valued. These conditions are the minimum required to improve patient safety indexes, according to the reality of each institution.

DOI: 
https://doi.org/10.37118/ijdr.20006.09.2020
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