An Investigation of Factors Affecting Patient Safety in Emergency Department in Selected Hospitals in UAE
The core reason of performing this study is to analyze the aspect of patient safety in the Emergency Department. Therefore, the study focuses on evaluating the patient safety applications and regulations in the hospitals of the UAE along with the factors that affect it. This research has been done following the quantitative research method and the data collection method used in this study is primary, which means that all of the data and information has been gathered on a personal basis. Moreover, the tool used to collect the dataset is an online survey which was conducted among the healthcare consultants and the hospital staff in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). Since the study is quantitative, it has been analyzed statistically using SPSS and the tests run on the data are the regression analysis, descriptive statistics, and correlation. According to the findings of the study, patient safety is highly dependent on the services of healthcare providers as this factor casts a huge impact on the patient safety. Other than this, there is also a second factor which is the environment of the hospital that influences the safety measures of the patient in a hospital. Based on the results of the statistical analysis performed in the research it can be claimed that there is an extremely close relationship between both of these factors to the patient safety.
