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Patient safety culture in Georgian healthcare – preliminary study results
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Nikoloz Gambashidze
- Universitätsklinikum Bonn, Institut für Patientensicherheit, Bonn
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Antje Hammer
- Universitätsklinikum Bonn, Institut für Patientensicherheit, Bonn
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Tanja Manser
- Fachhochschule Nordwestschweiz, Hochschule für Angewandte Psychologie, Olten, Schweiz
| Published: | October 12, 2018 |
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Background: Establishing and promoting Patient Safety Culture in healthcare organizations is thought to facilitate the provision of better and safer care to the patients. Despite decades of development and transformations in the countries healthcare system, to date there are no validated instruments for measuring patient safety culture in Georgian hospitals. The current state of Georgian healthcare providers’ perceptions of patient safety culture has not been studied, and characteristics of local determinants of patient safety culture are unknown.
Objective: Objective of the study is to evaluate the current state and local characteristics of patient safety culture in Georgian hospitals.
Method: We conducted a cross-sectional study. Two instruments, Hospital Survey on Patient Safety Culture (HSOPS) and Safety Attitudes Questionnaire (SAQ) were translated and adapted for use in Georgian healthcare. Back-translation, as well as cultural and linguistic adaptation were done before using the study instruments. The data collection with the selected instruments started in November 2017 and will last until July 2018. Up to ten medium to large hospitals are continuously recruited for the study. The local study coordinators are being trained in study methodology, providing the details of the study objectives, study protocol, as well as research instruments. The data is collected using online platform and paper-based questionnaires. By the end of the data-gathering, local study coordinators are being interviewed in order to assess the usability of the study methodology, and to identify common challenges in implementing the patient safety culture studies in the participating hospitals, as well as to develop a set of recommendations to overcome them.
Results: The results of the study serve as starting point for patient safety research and improvement in Georgian healthcare services.
The presentation will cover the results of the study, primarily the descriptive characteristics of patient safety culture in the participating hospitals. The results will be presented in association with different hospital and participant characteristics. Results of the semi-structured interviews with study coordinators from participating hospitals will be presented, stating the common challenges and different ways to overcome them.
The discussion will cover the generalizability of the results on a local scale for Georgian healthcare providers. The lessons learned from this study and its implications will be compared with the similar studies from various developing and developed countries.
