Patient safety issues and concerns in Bhutan's healthcare system: a qualitative exploratory descriptive study.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To investigate what healthcare professionals perceived and experienced as key patient safety concerns in Bhutan's healthcare system.

Design

Qualitative exploratory descriptive inquiry.

Settings

Three different levels of hospitals, a training institute and the Ministry of Health, Bhutan.

Participants

In total, 140 healthcare professionals and managers.

Methods

Narrative data were collected via conversational in-depth interviews and Nominal Group Meetings. All data were subsequently analysed using thematic analysis strategies.

Results

The data revealed that medication errors, healthcare-associated infections, diagnostic errors, surgical errors and postoperative complications, laboratory/blood testing errors, falls, patient identification

SUBMITTER: Pelzang R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6067340 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature