Patient Safety as a Commitment to Healthcare Quality: A Systematic Review

Abstract

The article is a systematic review of patient safety in hospital centers as a commitment to health quality carried out during the year 2022. From a total of 800 investigations related to the topic, 25 were selected through Patient Safety and Health Quality, Patient Safety OR Health Quality commands supported by the Consort flowchart and instruments: Prisma, Pico, and Progres. The data collected included the following sequence: a) Identification of the topic in the documents; b) Pre-selection phase, finding 700 articles screened; c) Selection phase: 25 articles; d) Grouping of information in instruments for analysis. The inclusion criteria were articles comprised between 2016 and 2022, with full text and open access, included in the PubMed database, and related to the study category, which declared no conflicts of interest. It is concluded that there is no research at the local level. The patient safety culture that intervenes in the quality of care is the correct identification of the patient, which helps to reduce adverse events in health care, being necessary to place bracelets on patients; timely communication by the staff avoids errors of omission. Adverse events are surgical complications, infections, and falls, due to staff exhaustion caused by workload. The application of the SBAR technique in the reports maintains a structured communication, being used by the nursing staff to give a detailed report of the patient's condition.