Health Management & Information Science

Health Management & Information Science

Assessment of safety management in different wards of AL Zahra hospital in Isfahan city in 2013

Document Type : Articles

Authors
Asad Allah Shams
Noureddin Niknam
Alireza Jabbari
Akbar Hasan Zadeh
Nezamaddin Mengelizadeh
Ghanbary Sartang Ayoub
Mohammadreza Aalipour
Mostafa Hadei
Abstract
Introduction: Since hospitals give their services to a huge number of people most of whom are sick and disabled and also because they have many expensive and modern equipment and facilities, any negligence regarding the standards of safety management leads to severe damages including financial ones. This may even result in irrecoverable consequences such as their clients’ Death. So, this investigation was conducted to assess the condition of safety management in Isfahan’s AL Zahra hospital.Methods: This cross-sectional and descriptive-analytical project was conducted in different wards of AL Zahra hospital. In this study, the hospital's units under the investigation were determined and no sampling method was used. The data collection was done by a checklist and questionnaire. They had content validity which was confirmed by the viewpoints of psychiatric and behavioral sciences specialists. The data were analyzed through SPSS (version 16) using Kruskal Wallis statistical tests. In this study, the level of significance was 0.05.Results: After assessing safety management in Safety and Accidents Committee and calculating the score average of the studied factors, safety management organization and also hospital’s organizational constructs sectors were 74.43±13.47 and 65.48±12.25, respectively. Their safety management condition was assessed appropriate. Surgery ward was also assessed appropriate regarding the principles of safety management with a mean score of 77.36±13.84. No significant difference was found among the studied standards in these units according to Kruskal Wallis statistical test. (P-value>0.05)Conclusion: The results showed that the condition of safety management in this hospital was acceptable, in general. However, it is necessary to do the following interventions to improve safety condition; training managers and staff, setting and observing the rules and disciplines of safety, regular monitoring of safety issues and considering safety principles implementation as an important factor in evaluating and ranking of hospitals.Keywords: safety management, accidents and safety committee, hospital
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