Factors Affecting Patient Safety Culture and Medical Error Incidence in Emergency Services

Emergency service is a unit with unique working conditions where necessary precautions are taken in order to prevent deterioration of health condition of a person who has a health problem due to any reason. Emergency service is a very complex unit with high patient load when compared with other units of the hospital. Emergency units accept patients requiring acute medical care. On the other hand situations such as the highly populated patients in the emergency service and inadequate number of healthcare professionals, crowdedness of the working environment, communication insufficiency, problems with teamwork, interruption of the activities and assignment of multiple missions threaten patient safety and may increase tendency to make medical errors.