Developing Iranian patient safety indicators: an essential approach for improving safety of healthcare
Article Category: Brief communication (Original)
Published Online: Feb 04, 2017
Page range: 365 - 373
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5372/1905-7415.0703.188
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Background: Patient safety indicators are valuable tools by which to monitor quantitatively patient safety.
Objective: We developed patient safety indicators for the Iranian health system.
Methods: Fifty-four patient safety indicators were identified in literature and 24 of them were selected as candidate indicators. In the first round of Delphi, panelists agreed upon 20 of them and suggested eight new indicators. In the second round, four uncertain and eight new indicators were evaluated. In this round, nine indicators were agreed upon and three were dropped.
Conclusion: This study suggested 29 consensus-based indicators for the Iranian health system to assess safety of care. Establishing reporting systems and pilot testing of this set of indicators are strongly recommended.