Experience of the patient regarding their safety in the hospital environment.
Ana Cristina Pretto Báo, Cassiana Gil Prates, Marcelo Prado Amaral-Rosa and 5 others
PMID 37820126WHAT IT FOUND
Hospitalized patients and families tied safe care to daily information and nursing availability.
They noticed identification checks for medications and tests, but not at meals, and said discharge teaching was missing.
Key findings
01Patients and families linked safe care to daily information from medical professionals about treatment, medications, tests and results, and to nurses and technicians being available across shifts.
02Participants said discharge preparation about treatment, medications and daily activities was lacking, and patients and families were not sufficiently encouraged to participate actively.
03Patients did not perceive identification verification at mealtimes and did not mention the yellow fall-risk bracelet.
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What it does not show
The study was done in one private hospital in southern Brazil, so the findings may not apply to other settings. It included only 12 interviews, with 5 patients, 4 family members, and 3 patient-family units, and participants had to be able to communicate and move to a private room. Data were collected during hospitalization, which may have left the full hospital experience incompletely described. The study reports patients' and families' perceptions, not measured safety outcomes or errors. Some interviews involved patient-family units, so individual patient and family contributions may be mixed.
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The easy way to misread this
Do not read this as proof that safety protocols reduced harm or that patients were safe. It reports perceptions from 12 interviews in one hospital and gives no outcomes.