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Authors
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1Department of Health Informatics, College of Public Health and Health Informatics, University of Ha'il, Ha'il, Saudi Arabia; 2Department of Health administration, College of Public Health and Health Informatics, University of Ha'il, Ha'il, Saudi Arabia; 3Department of Public Health, College of Public Health and Health Informatics, University of Ha'il, Ha'il, Saudi Arabia; 4Molecular Diagnostic and Personalised Therapeutics Unit, University of Ha'il, Ha'il, Saudi Arabia.
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Research Article
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Abstract
Patient protection
has become one of the key elements of the quality of health care
systems in Saudi Arabia. Medical errors that threaten patient safety
are mediated by several factors including system risk factors.
Hence, we used a self-structured questionnaire to assess and rank
the system factors according to the perceptions of nurses working in
the hospitals of the ministry of health in Hail, KSA. Eight out of
twelve factors tested were perceived as threatening factors of the
patient safety that are; ‘Shortage of medical staff’, ‘Poor design
of the hospital structure’, ‘Long working hours’, ‘Overcrowding of
patients’, ‘Poor coordination between hospital departments,
‘Punitive and
blaming environment, ‘Lack of clinical practice standards’ and,
‘Poor financial incentives’. Thus, considering the negative impact
of the identified threatening system factors in this study on
patient safety, urgent planning and managing appropriate corrective
actions should be designed to improve patient safety issues.
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Edited by
P Kangueane
ISSN
0973-2063
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This is an Open Access article which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly credited. This is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License.
