Table 2: Assessment of risk factors that interfere in patient safety in intensive care (n = 163).
Risk factors that interfere with patient safety in critical care | n | NOT % | N | YES % |
Inadequate infrastructure | 18 | 11.0 | 145 | 89.0 |
Materials of poor quality | 42 | 25.7 | 121 | 74.3 |
Old technological equipment and without periodic revision | 52 | 31.9 | 111 | 68.1 |
Employee overload | 51 | 31.2 | 112 | 68.2 |
Absence of employees by attestation or health leave | 35 | 21.4 | 128 | 78.6 |
Communication errors | 45 | 27.6 | 118 | 72.4 |
Drug therapy | 72 | 44.1 | 91 | 55.9 |
Error in patient identification | 74 | 45.3 | 89 | 54.7 |
Error in using barrier methods | 81 | 49.6 | 82 | 50.4 |
Absence of nursing systematization | 23 | 14.1 | 140 | 85.9 |
Intensive care hospital infection | 76 | 46.7 | 87 | 53.3 |