least 0.2 percent of hospitalized patients, adverse events played a role in patients death in past 6 mounts.
The results of survey on patient safety culture in hospital indicate that the patient safety culture scores were considerably low (average score of 12 dimensions of patient safety culture was 46.2 percent). The lowest scores were “non-punitive responses to error” (21.2 percent), “staff and related subjects” (26.1 percent), “teamwork across hospital units (29.1 percent) and “management support for patient safety” (29.7 percent). The dimension “teamwork within hospital units” generated the highest score (69.9 percent). In addition, 44.3 percent of the staff of hospital graded the safety performance of hospital as very good. Moreover, no events were reported by 57 percent of respondents during past 12 month (Table 2).