| Title |
A Study of the Planning Guidelines to Ensure the Safety of Geriatric Long-term Care Hospitals |
| DOI |
https://doi.org/10.5659/JAIK.2021.37.12.181 |
| Keywords |
Patient safety; Geriatric long-term care hospitals; Hospital wards; Guidelines |
| Abstract |
Providing a safe patient environment is one of the basic rights of patients. The environmental conditions required for patient safety can vary
depending on the severity and vulnerability of the patients. Given that the accidents related to patient safety, including all types of errors,
mistakes, or accidents occurring a hospital, are directly related to the patient’s lives, providing an appropriate medical environment for
patients is the most important factor when determining the quality of medical services. Recently, the number of geriatric long-term care
hospitals has increased. However, it has been revealed that many safety-related accidents are occurring in the geriatric long-term care
hospitals due to a lack of understanding of the physical characteristics of elderly patients. In this regard, this paper aims to provide
guidelines to ensure a safe hospital environment for elderly patients in geriatric long-term care hospitals. In this study, we initially reviewed
domestic and international standards, guidelines, and related previous studies and safety-related factors were summarized. Secondly, based on
an analysis of the existing factors, expert interviews and case studies were conducted according to the factors and the current statuses of
facilities were analyzed. Lastly, the guidelines for ensuring patient safety in geriatric long-term care hospitals were provided. |