Impact of patients’ safety rights and medical errors on the patients’ security feeling: a cross-sectional study

Purpose The regulation defines patients’ rights as a reflection of fundamental human rights in the field of medicine and incorporates all elements of patients’ rights accepted in international texts. Hence, the purpose of this paper is to investigate the relationship between patients’ safety, medica...

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Published in:International journal of human rights in healthcare 2019-07, Vol.12 (3), p.215-224
Main Authors: Abedi, Ghasem, Mahmoodi, Ghahraman, Malekzadeh, Roya, Khodaei, Zeinab, Siraneh Belete, Yibeltal, Hasanpoor, Edris
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Critical incidents
Cross-sectional studies
Data collection
Deviation
Experts
Health care
Health services
Hospitals
Human rights
Medical errors
Nurses
Patient safety
Patients rights
Private hospitals
Questionnaires
Reliability
Safety
Safety regulations
Social security
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Summary:Purpose The regulation defines patients’ rights as a reflection of fundamental human rights in the field of medicine and incorporates all elements of patients’ rights accepted in international texts. Hence, the purpose of this paper is to investigate the relationship between patients’ safety, medical errors and patients’ safety rights with patients’ security feeling in selected hospitals of Mazandaran Province, Iran. Design/methodology/approach This descriptive cross-sectional study was conducted in selected hospitals of Mazandaran Province in public, social and private hospitals in 2016. In total, 1,083 patients were randomly selected for the study. The developed tool (questionnaire) was used for data collection. Questionnaire validity was verified through experts and its reliability was confirmed by Cronbach’s α coefficient (95 percent). Data were analyzed through multiple regressions by SPSS software (version 21). Findings The findings of this paper showed that the mean (standard deviation) medical error, patient’s safety, patient’s rights and patient’s security feeling were 2.50±0.61, 2.22±0.67, 2.11±0.68 and 2.73±0.63, respectively. Correlation testing results showed that medical error, patient’s safety and patient’s rights simultaneously had a significant relation with patient’s security feeling in the selected hospitals (p
ISSN:2056-4902
2056-4910
DOI:10.1108/IJHRH-01-2019-0001