Measuring the Current Patient Safety Culture in Public General Hospitals of Southern Nations Nationalities and Peoples Region (SNNPR), Ethiopia: Perspective of Health Care Workers

Abstract

Background: Patient safety is crucial to the quality of patient care and remains challenging for countries at all levels of development. There is a popular acknowledgement of the importance of establishing patient safety culture in healthcare organizations. As a result, assessing patient safety culture and frequent event reporting in healthcare organizations has become a common activity to improve quality of health care.