Strategies to improve the implementation of patient safety-friendly hospital standards in Iran, a mixed-method study

Document Type : Original Article

Authors
mohammadreza tavakoli 1
mohammadreza amiresmaili 2
mahmood nekoeimohgadam 2
reza kazemi 3
1 بیمارستان الزهرا، دانشگاه علوم پزشکی اصفهان، اصفهان، ایران
2 Professor, Health Services Management, Health Services Management Research Center, Institute for Future Studies in Health, Kerman University of Medical Sciences, Kerman, Iran
3 Department of ..orology....., Al-Zahra Hospital, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, Iran
10.48305/him.2026.45901.1360
Abstract
Background and Objective: The Patient Safety Friendly Hospitals Program includes the implementation of a set of patient safety standards in hospitals. The implementation of these standards ensures that patient safety is accepted as an essential priority in hospitals and that staff from all units are working towards this goal. The purpose of this study was to investigate strategies for improving the implementation of patient safety friendly hospital standards in Iranian hospitals.

Methodology: This study was conducted in a sequential manner. First, strategies for improving patient safety friendly hospital standards were identified by conducting a qualitative study, then the strategies were approved or rejected by experts using a two-stage fuzzy Delphi method.

Findings: In this study, 30 main issues were identified as strategies for improving the implementation of patient safety friendly hospital standards, of which one strategy was eliminated by the experts and 29 main issues were approved.

Conclusion: It is better to implement the strategies presented in this study and achieve the goal of improving the quality of services provided and better implementation of patient safety standards in centers to make the implementation of standards as effective as possible.
Keywords
Patient safety
standards
hospital
Iran
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