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. 2024 Mar 14;23:171. doi: 10.1186/s12912-024-01831-1

Table 3.

Knowledge of Patient Safety among Study Participants (N = 307)

1 The clinical environment can be a cause of errors
No 32 (10.4%)
Yes 275 (89.6%)
2 Medical errors are a sign of incompetence
No 153 (49.8%)
Yes 154 (50.2%)
3 The key to patient safety strategies is set by national health surveillance
No 40 (13%)
Yes 267 (87%)
4 Patients have an important role in preventing errors
No 54 (17.6%)
Yes 253 (82.4%)
5 Human error is inevitable
No 76 (24.8%)
Yes 231 (75.2%)
6 An adverse event is an event that affected the patient
No 14 (4.6%)
Yes 293 (95.4%)
7 Patient safety is the characteristic of a highly reliable health care Organization
No 4 (1.3%)
Yes 303 (98.7%)
8 The key dimension of patient safety is culture
No 21 (6.8%)
Yes 286 (93.2%)
9 A mistake is a failure to execute an action plan as intended or the implementation of the wrong plan
No 46 (15%)
Yes 261 (85%)
10 There are contributing factors to the occurrence of clinical errors
No 10 (3.3%)
Yes 297 (96.7%)
11 There should be a next step to be done after the occurrence of an error
No 8 (2.6%)
Yes 299 (97.4%)