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Safety culture and adverse event reporting in Ghanaian healthcare facilities: Implications for patient safety

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  • Aaron Asibi Abuosi
  • Collins Atta Poku
  • Priscilla Y A Attafuah
  • Emmanuel Anongeba Anaba
  • Patience Aseweh Abor
  • Adelaide Setordji
  • Edward Nketiah-Amponsah

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Introduction: Recognizing the values and norms significant to healthcare organizations (Safety Culture) are the prerequisites for safety and quality care. Understanding the safety culture is essential for improving undesirable workforce attitudes and behaviours such as lack of adverse event reporting. The study assessed the frequency of adverse event reporting, the patient safety culture determinants of the adverse event reporting, and the implications for Ghanaian healthcare facilities. Methods: The study employed a multi-centre cross-sectional survey on 1651 health professionals in 13 healthcare facilities in Ghana using the Survey on Patient Safety (SOPS) Culture, Hospital Survey questionnaire. Analyses included descriptive, Spearman Rho correlation, one-way ANOVA, and a Binary logistic regression model. Results: The majority of health professionals had at least reported adverse events in the past 12 months across all 13 healthcare facilities. Teamwork (Mean: 4.18, SD: 0.566) and response to errors (Mean: 3.40, SD: 0.742) were the satisfactory patient safety culture. The patient safety culture dimensions were statistically significant (χ2 (9, N = 1642) = 69.28, p

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  • Aaron Asibi Abuosi & Collins Atta Poku & Priscilla Y A Attafuah & Emmanuel Anongeba Anaba & Patience Aseweh Abor & Adelaide Setordji & Edward Nketiah-Amponsah, 2022. "Safety culture and adverse event reporting in Ghanaian healthcare facilities: Implications for patient safety," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 17(10), pages 1-18, October.
    • Handle: RePEc:plo:pone00:0275606
    DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0275606
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