Assessing safety culture: guidelines and recommendations

Assessing safety culture: guidelines and recommendations.

Patient safety culture improvement tool: development and guidelines for use.

The Patient Safety Culture Improvement Tool (PSCIT) was developed to assist healthcare organizations in identifying practical actions to improve their culture. This article describes the development process of the PSCIT and provides a guide to using the PSCIT. The tool is based on a safety culture maturity model, which describes five stages of cultural evolution, from pathological to generative...

Assessing patient safety culture in hospitals across countries

OBJECTIVE It is believed that in order to reduce the number of adverse events, hospitals have to stimulate a more open culture and reflective attitude towards errors and patient safety. The objective is to examine similarities and differences in hospital patient safety culture in three countries: the Netherlands, the USA and Taiwan. DESIGN This is a cross-sectional survey study across three c...

Attitude of Health Center Staff towards the Components of Patient Safety Culture and Assessing Patient Satisfaction, Amol, Iran

Background and purpose: Patient safety is one of the most important indicators of primary healthcare settings. There is a direct association between patient safety culture and improvement in healthcare outcomes. Also, identifying the factors that enhance client satisfaction could be of great help in improving quality of care. This research was done to investigate patient safety culture in healt...

Safety paradoxes and safety culture

This paper deals with four safety paradoxes: (1) Safety is defined and measured more by its absence than its presence. (2) Defences, barriers and safeguards not only protect a system, they can also cause its catastrophic breakdown. (3) Many organisations seek to limit the variability of human action, primarily to minimise error, but it is this same variability – in the form of timely adjustment...