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Areas of Potential Improvement for Hospitals' Patient-Safety Culture in Western Ethiopia
- Source :
- Drug, Healthcare and Patient Safety
- Publication Year :
- 2020
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Abstract
- Background Patient-safety culture is an important component of health-care quality and currentlyan issue of high concern globally. In Ethiopia, little is known about patient-safety culture in hospitals. We assessed the patient-safety culture and associated factors among health-care workers in public hospitals of East Wollega Zone, western Ethiopia. Methods This institution-based cross-sectional study was conducted among 421 health-care workers selected using simple random sampling from March 4 to March 29, 2019. A standardized measuring 12 patient safety–culture components was used for data collection. Data were cleaned and entered into EpiData version 3.1 and analysis done using SPSS version 25 (IBM). Bivariate and multivariate linear regression analyses were performed. Significance was set at 95% CI and p
- Subjects :
- patient-safety culture
public hospital
Ethiopia
Original Research
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Details
- ISSN :
- 11791365
- Volume :
- 12
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Drug, healthcare and patient safety
- Accession number :
- edsair.pmid.dedup....9dd18cb1007c060961299d5eae9167e3