Patient Safety Status in Selected Training Hospitals Affiliated toMashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, Iran

Introduction:the quality and safety of care and services provided to the patient are among the mostimportant issues in the health care sector. therefore, the present study was conductedto investigate the current status of patient safety in hospitals affiliated to mashhaduniversity of medical sciences, mashhad, iran.materials and methods:the present study with a pretest and posttest design was carried out on 11 educationalhospitals affiliated to mashhad university of medical sciences. the hospitals wereevaluated using the checklist of patient safety friendly hospital that is approved by theministry of health. after analyzing the results with regard to the weaknesses, feedbackwas provided for each hospital, and then the hospitals were reevaluated by the samechecklist. the data were analyzed by spss software (version 22).results:the results of this study showed that in the first 6 months of the study within march toseptember 2017 before providing the feedback to the hospitals, the average accordanceof hospitals with patient safety standards was 67.1% that reached 72.72% afterdelivering the feedback, applying patient safety standards in hospitals, and eliminatingdeficiencies.conclusion:hospitals should obtain the total score of the checklist to reach the patient safetyfriendly hospital rank; however, an average of about 75% is also significant, andplanning is essential to achieve the maximum scores.