PERSPECTIVES OF HEALTH CARE PROFESSIONALS ON PATIENT INVOLVEMENT IN PATIENT SAFETY AS A POTENTIAL PATIENT AT TERTIARY CARE WOMEN’S HOSPITALS IN COLOMBO DISTRICT

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Background In modern medicine, there’s an important recognition on patient safety culture and patient’s participation in treatment procedure. However, very little known about health care professionals’ attitude on patient participation in such patient safety related procedures. Secondly, there’s a paucity of data about patient involvement in patient safety. Hardly any research is done on Sri Lanka up to now. Instead of using actual patient we decided to get the selected health care professionals perception on patient involvement in patient safety as a potential patient. Objective The study aims to describe the perspectives of selected health care professionals on patient involvement in patient safety as a potential patient at tertiary care women’s hospitals in Colombo district. Health Care Professionals perspectives as a potential patient were assessed in 05 different areas. They were as follows. a. To study the selected HCPs attitudes towards factual questions b. To study the selected HCP’s attitudes towards challenging questions c. To study the selected HCP’s attitudes towards notifying questions d. To study the selected HCP’s attitudes towards information provision questions e. To study the selected HCP’s attitudes towards reporting incidents Methods This is a hospital-based descriptive, cross-sectional study were carried out in tertiary care Women’s hospitals in the Colombo district. The study was carried out from 10th November 2016 to 22nd August 2017. The data was collected using a self-administered questionnaire. Stratified random sampling method were used to get the required sample size. International Journal of Applied Science and Engineering Review