ANALYSIS OF PATIENT SAFETY CULTURE INSTRUMENT BY MaPSaF
Abstract
Hospital as health care organization must develop a patient safety culture in
an effort to improve the quality of care in order to prevent the accurrence of adverse
event. MaPSaF (Manchester Patient Safety Framework) is one of instrument that
published by National Patient Safety Agency (NPSA) in 2006, it can be used to measure
the level of patient safety culture. The aim of this study was to determine the dimensions
of the patient safety culture instrument by MaPSaF. This study was a quantitative design
with study literature approach. The results of this study was MaPSaF composed of 10
dimensions of patient safety culture with 24 themes. The dimensions are commitment
to overall continous improvement, priority given to safety, system errors and individual
responsibility, recording incidents and best practice, evaluating incidents and best
practice, learning and affecting change, communication about safety issues, personnel
management and safety issues, staff education and training, and team working. The
themes are commitment to improvement, audit,policies, priority of patient safety, risk
management system, implementation of patient safety, the cause of the incident,
patient safety culture, reporting feeling and system, data analysis, the focus and result
of investigation, incidents learning, the people in deciding of change, communication
about patient safety between staf, patient or both, share the information, supporting the
staff, training needs andpurposes, team structure, the ow of information and sharing.
The conclusion of this study was MaPSaF tools suitable for assessing the level of patient
safety culture at the hospital in Indonesia.