Impact of Patient Safety Incidents Reported by the General Public in Korea.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

The study aimed to investigate the impacts of patient safety incident (PSI) experienced by the general public.

Methods

We conducted a self-administered online survey, in which we examined the following experiences of the patients and the caregivers: the level of harm induced by PSIs, difficulties due to PSIs, posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), and posttraumatic embitterment disorder, etc. A χ2 test was performed to identify differences in difficulties because of the direct and indirect experience of PSIs. A 1-way analysis of variance was performed to identify the differences in the total PTSD and posttraumatic embitterment disorder scores according to the characteristics of PSIs.

Results

Of the survey participants who indirectly experienced PSIs, 27.2% an

SUBMITTER: Pyo J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8612920 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature