Cho Sumi, Lee Eunjoo
Author Affiliation: College of Nursing, Research Institute of Nursing Science, Kyungpook National University, Daegu, Korea.
Comput Inform Nurs. 2017 Dec;35(12):639-646. doi: 10.1097/CIN.0000000000000374.
Recently, the patient's role in preventing adverse events has been emphasized. Patients who are more knowledgeable about safety issues are more likely to engage in safety initiatives. Therefore, nurses need to develop techniques and tools that increase patients' knowledge in preventing adverse events. For this reason, an educational smartphone application for patient safety called "Safe Patients" was developed through an iterative process involving a literature review, expert consultations, and pilot testing of the application. To determine the effect of "Safe Patients," it was implemented for patients in surgical units in a tertiary hospital in South Korea. The change in patients' knowledge about patient safety was measured using seven true/false questions developed in this study. A one-group pretest and posttest design was used, and a total of 123 of 190 possible participants were tested. The percentage of correct answers significantly increased from 64.5% to 75.8% (P < .001) after implementation of the "Safe Patients" application. This study demonstrated that the application "Safe Patients" could effectively improve patients' knowledge of safety issues. This will ultimately empower patients to engage in safe practices and prevent adverse events related to surgery.
最近，患者在预防不良事件中的作用受到了重视。对安全问题了解更多的患者更有可能参与安全倡议。因此，护士需要开发提高患者预防不良事件知识的技术和工具。出于这个原因，通过一个涉及文献综述、专家咨询和应用程序试点测试的迭代过程，开发了一款名为“安全患者”的用于患者安全的教育智能手机应用程序。为了确定“安全患者”的效果，在韩国一家三级医院的外科病房对患者实施了该应用程序。使用本研究中开发的七个是非题来衡量患者对患者安全知识的变化。采用单组前测和后测设计，在190名可能的参与者中，共有123人接受了测试。在实施“安全患者”应用程序后，正确答案的百分比从64.5%显著提高到75.8%（P <.001）。这项研究表明，“安全患者”应用程序可以有效地提高患者对安全问题的认识。这最终将使患者有能力采取安全措施，预防与手术相关的不良事件。
