Análisis Comparativo de la Seguridad del Paciente en Instituciones de Salud de España y Colombia

Abstract

Patient safety is considered a cornerstone of medical care and an essential requirement to ensure quality of care, there are factors that can affect the course of care, for example, “adverse events” as defined by the World Health Organization (WHO) are errors in medical care that lead to demonstrable harm or injury to patients and are unrelated to the underlying condition. It includes equipment and medication errors, inefficiencies in making a clinical decision, hospital-acquired infection, misdiagnosis. Likewise, Patient Safety culture is defined as a transformation process that depends on multiple factors to generate a positive change in an organization lacking culture, since it is not only telling the professional what to do, but also including him/her in the change through experiences. The objective of this work is to analyze patient safety in health institutions through a documentary review, in order to know the differences or similarities of its applicability. For this purpose, a comparative methodology with descriptive scope was applied, through the review of 10 scientific articles that were examined in order to compare the perception of health personnel about patient safety with the perception of health personnel about patient safety in health institutions in Spain and Colombia.