Assessment of Efforts Made to Improve Patient Safety Related to Medication Safety, Infection Prevention and Quality Care among Addis Ababa Regional Hospitals, 2018

Abstract

Background: Patient safety is a discipline that emphasizes safety in health care through the prevention, reduction, reporting, and analysis of medical error that often leads to adverse effects. Hospitalized patients face safety issues from different dimensions among those medication safety, infection prevention and quality of nursing care are most important once.Objective: The main objective of this study was to assess patient safety related to medication safety, infection prevention and quality of care and to explore efforts made towards controlling patient safety efforts among Addis Ababa regional hospitals, 2018Methods: A qualitative study was conducted to assess patient safety among Addis Ababa regional Hospitals in terms of medication safety, infection prevention and quality of nursing care. Twelve interviews were conducted by principal investigator three interviews in each hospital on purposefully selected health care staffs representing the hospitals pharmacies, infection prevention team members and Head Nurses of inpatient wards on October, 2018 over a one-month period. Interviews were recorded, transcribed and results were summarized based on topics.Results and conclusions: Studies in Ethiopia showed that Patient safety related to Medication safety, infection prevention and Nursing care quality is not encouraging but still effective monitoring efforts aren't in practice among Addis Ababa regional hospitals even though recommended by the EHRIG (Ethiopian hospital reform implementation guideline, 2010).