| خلاصه مقاله | Background and Aim: Patient safety defines identifying, assessing, and managing patient related risks and occurrences to improve patient care and reduce patient harm. Patient safety is crucial for health care quality and is one of the major parameters monitored by all health care organizations around the world. Although safety culture has been studied in hospitals worldwide, the related factors have received little attention. The aim of this study was to integrative review to determine the associated factors of patient safety culture.
Materials and Methods:
Procedures of this review for conducting a systematic literature search was according to the guideline provided by the University of York. Databases such as PubMed, Web of Science (ISI), Scopus, ScienceDirect, EmBase, Cochrane library, Google scholar, and Iranian databases, such as Scientific Information Database and Magiran were searched. The latest search was performed between “November 2010 and December 2022” separately by two researchers and then double-checked by them. After the assessment of the inclusion and exclusion criteria. The quality of the included studies was assessed using the Jadad score calculation tool. Twelve randomized controlled trials and quasi-experimental studies were included in this current study. The quality assessment indicated that 10 studies had acceptable (good) methodological quality.
Results:
Findings of study emphasized gender, educational level, working unit, organizational learning, experiences, workloads, adverse events were statistically significant associated with patient safety culture. in addition to gender, educational level, working unit predicted 28.8 % of patient safety culture.
Conclusion:
Our findings suggest that investing in patient safety culture can be viewed as building an organizational resource, which is beneficial for improving the care quality. So training program for care provider is needed alongside strategies to improve professional communication. In addition, patient safety needs to be improved in hospitals through in-service education, management support, and institutional regulations. |