Objective:

To assess the attitude of frontline healthcare workers towards patient safety protocols in healthcare centers of Karachi.

Methodology:

This is a cross-sectional study conducted during February 2023 to May 2023. A pre-structured, validated questionnaire was used as study tool, study participants were permanent staff of health care institutes.

Results:

Total 224 participants were enrolled in the study, 82 (36.6%) from private sector institute while 142 (55.4%) were recruited form public sector hospital. The overall mean age 36.1 ± 9 years, with gender distribution of 133 (59.4%) male and 91 (40.6%) female participants.  The difference between public sector and private sector was assessed for all six components of questionnaire to evaluated the attitude of health care workers, results indicated higher team work enthusiasm in public sector hospital as compared to private sector with 96 (42.8%) versus 75 (33.4%).

Conclusion:

This study concludes that attitude of Frontline Health Workers towards Patient Safety in public sector hospitals and private sector hospitals is noticeably different indicating vast difference of management, leadership, safety climate, teamwork enthusiasm and personal safety among healthcare workers.

Keywords: Patient safety, Healthcare workers, Attitude, knowledge of healthcare workers, patient’s satisfaction, quality of care