An Investigation on Contributing Factors to Patient Safety



A research survey says that one in 3 patients is estimated to experience health care–related harm during hospitalization. This cross-sectional study used to measure interprofessional staff perceptions of safety and teamwork climate, modified Global Trigger Tool chart review methodology to measure unit-level patient outcomes. The word Global Trigger Tool is used to identify the adverse events for measuring the overall level of effects caused by the harmful products in healthcare industries. Researchers may consider this Global Trigger tool for detecting the unit- level adverse events.

Measuring Safety climate, Team Work Climate and Adverse Events (AEs):
Safety climate is the value for safety requirement in an organisation at a particular point in time. These perceptions can be influenced by the attitudes, values, opinions and actions of other workers in an organisation, and can change with time and circumstance. The relationship between the patient outcome and Safety climate is measured based on the outcome.

There are several valid safety climate surveys available, those are:
  •   Agency for Health care Research and Quality (AHRQ)
  •   Hospital Survey on Patient Safety Culture
  •   The Patient Safety Climate in Health care Organizations
  •   The Safety Attitudes Questionnaire (SAQ)
Team work is another organizational defense that used to reduce the risk of adverse events. Teamwork training has the capacity to significantly reduce medical errors and therefore improve patient outcome. In 2009, the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) published the Global Trigger Tool (GTT) for the measurement of Adverse Events, and it has become the widely used global patient safety measurement tool. Patient outcome data were collected from the individual patient records to determine the occurrence of adverse events (AEs).




The purpose of this study was to explore the relationships between organizational (safety climate) and human factors (teamwork) with adverse events (AEs) that resulted in the patient harm which has been detected using the (GTT)-modified trigger tool methodology.

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