Improving patient safety in developing countries - moving towards an integrated approach.

Patient safety is a major public health issue. It has also been recognised as an area for improvement. The purpose of this article is to discuss the need for developing an integrated approach to patient safety improvement in developing countries.

Improving patient safety in Libya: insights from a British health system perspective.

Purpose Patient safety programmes aim to make healthcare safe for both patients and health professionals. The purpose of this paper is to explore the UK's patient safety improvement programmes over the past 15 years and explore what lessons can be learnt to improve Libyan healthcare patient safety. Design/methodology/approach Publications focusing on UK patient safety were searched in academic databases and content analysed.

Psychometric evaluation of the Arabic language person-centred climate questionnaire-staff version.

Aim: To evaluate the psychometric properties of the Arabic language person-centred climate questionnaire-staff version.

Background: There have been increasing calls for a person-centred rather than a disease-centred approach to health care. A limited number of tools measure the extent to which care is delivered in a person-centred manner, and none of these tools have been validated for us in Arab settings.

Key priority areas for patient safety improvement strategy in Libya: a protocol for a modified Delphi study.

Introduction: Patient safety is a global public health problem. Estimates and size of the problem of patient safety in low-income and developing countries are scarce. A systems approach is needed for ensuring that patients are protected from harm while receiving care.

Status of patient safety culture in Arab countries: a systematic review.

Objectives: To explore the status of patient safety culture in Arab countries based on the findings of the Hospital Survey on Patient Safety Culture (HSPSC).

Design: Systematic review.

Methods: We performed electronic searches of the MEDLINE, EMBASE, CINAHL, ProQuest and PsychINFO, Google Scholar and PubMed databases, with manual searches of bibliographies of included articles and key journals.

Systematic review of factors influencing length of stay in ICU after adult cardiac surgery.

Background: Intensive care unit (ICU) care is associated with costly and often scarce resources. In many parts of the world, ICUs are being perceived as major bottlenecks limiting downstream services such as operating theatres. There are many clinical, surgical and contextual factors that influence length of stay.