Patient Measure Of Safety (PMOS) For Measuring Patient Perception Of Safety In Hospital: Systematic Review

The complexity of healthcare system and the rise in patient harm in healthcare facility has resulted in patient safety as the main priority in health care. Patients are the acute observer of their care and yet, there is lack in patient involvement in improving patient safety in hospital. Patient Measure of Safety (PMOS) isa tool to assess factors that has contribution to the safety of their care. The objective of this systemic review is to assess the feasibility of PMOS to identify factors that contribute to safety in the hospital setting. Online database literature searchwere conducted in Pubmed, Proquest and Google Scholar based on PRISMA guideline, resulting in 502 articles. Irrelevant articles based on exclusion criteria were removed and then based on the full text, 5 articles were chosen for this systemic review. Based on the compiled articles, PMOS were able to catch latent weaknesses in health care, identifying factors that contributes to safety based on patient perception, such as delay or bad communication and team work. As a part of measuring of safety intervention, PMOS able to detect problems that usually missed in the hospital management. Therefore, the uniqueness of patient feedback could be captured through PMOS, as feasible, valid and reliable tool to measure safety factors through patient perception. Combining PMOS with other safety tools and continuous improvement might help hospital to maintain and improve the safety of the care.