Aims: Patient safety has consistently been a primary concern in healthcare systems globally. The World Health Organization’s comprehensive approach includes changes in safety culture, system development, and professional development. The patient safety friendly hospital initiative aims to enhance patient safety by prioritizing it as a core aspect of hospital practices, going beyond the objective of expeditious discharge. This study aimed to assess the effect of implementing the patient safety friendly hospital initiative on patient safety culture. Instrument & Methods: This pre-post intervention design (single-group design) study utilized standards set by the World Health Organization for promoting patient safety culture, which includes 140 items categorized into five groups, including governance and leadership, patient and community involvement, safe clinical services, safe environment, and education. These groups were further divided into subgroups with mandatory, basic, and advanced standards. Findings: Hospitalizations in low- and middle-income countries resulted in significant mortality due to substandard safety practices, many of which were preventable. In Iran, despite a lack of documented statistics, the increasing number of complaints suggested high error rates, leading to substantial financial burdens. Conclusion: The implementation of safety standards has benefits for hospitals and society by enhancing patient safety and reducing adverse events.

Patient safety as a basic principle of quality is dominant in the global health agenda and mentioned as an essential requirement to organize a qualified health care system.....

Background: Patient Safety Events (PSEs) are important preventable issues with high morbidity and mortality rates, imposing high costs and the occurrence of legal and social problems in societies. Therefore, having a prevention program is very important for it. In this study, we have selected the most common and important errors and provide simple preventive measures for users. Methods: In this review study, to obtain information associated to patient safety prevention, we used the scientific reliable literatures, registered in US National Library of Medicine/National Institutes of Health (PubMed), Google Scholar and Scopus data banks. Results: Simple preventive measures for prevention of mistakes due to misidentification (nominal similarities, displacement of the patients, switching the newborns, etc. ), miscommunication (improper communications, patient disrespect, misinterpretations due to language differences, giving bad news, etc. ), misinterpretations, irrational administration and use of drugs (inappropriate medication, for the wrong patient, with wrong amount, via the wrong way, and for the wrong duration), incompatible blood transfusion, mistakes in anesthesia, surgeries and other procedures, medical complications due to PSEs (Health care associated infections, trauma and fall, thrombophlebitis and thromboembolism, bed sores, suicide, violence, and mismanagement of the hospital affaires were extracted and suggested to the hospital authorities. Conclusion: We have extracted numerous suggested preventive measures from the accomplished studies for prevention of unpleasant patient safety related events in the hospitals.