BACKGROUND By assessing patient safety culture, healthcare providers can identify areas for improvement in patient safety culture. To achieve this, these assessment outcomes have to be relevant and presented clearly. The aim of our study was to explore healthcare professionals' views on the feedback of a patient safety culture assessment. METHODS Twenty four hospitals participated in a patien...

INTRODUCTION Recent reviews of safety culture measures have revealed a host of potential factors that could make up a safety culture (Flin, Mearns, O'Connor, & Bryden, 2000; Guldenmund, 2000). However, there is still little consensus regarding what the core factors of safety culture are. The purpose of the current research was to determine the core factors, as well as the structure of those fac...

Recent years have witnessed a growing concern over the issue of safety culture within high-risk industries. The purpose of the present review is to summarize and integrate the numerous reports and studies that have been conducted to define and assesses safety culture, as well as the highly related concept of safety climate. Safety professionals have increasingly turned their attention to social...

This document reviews the literature on safety culture, focussing particularly on research carried out from 1998 onwards. Objectives 1. To review the main features of safety culture and safety climate within the existing academic and applied literature 2. To explore the links between safety culture and safety performance. Main Findings 1. Culture can be seen as a concept that describes the shar...

The construction industry is one of the most injury-prone industries and an increasing number of scholars are paying great attention to safety culture in this industry. This study aims to construct a conceptual model of safety culture through recognizing the significance of related influencing factors, helping improve the safety condition of construction enterprises. First, we review the relate...

BACKGROUND This study investigated the relationship between people's attitudes towards the safety culture and comparing its perceptions among three levels of refinery Personnel: top management, supervisory staff and frontline workers by conducting safety culture survey. METHODS A questionnaire comprising general information and 59-safety attitude statement were distributed among 237 workers, ...

OBJECTIVES Current literature emphasises that clinical leaders are in a position to enable a culture of safety, and that the safety culture is a performance mediator with the potential to influence patient outcomes. This paper aims to investigate staff's perceptions of patient safety culture in a Danish psychiatric department before and after a leadership intervention. METHODS A repeated cros...

BACKGROUND Developing a patient safety culture was one of the recommendations made by the Institute of Medicine to assist hospitals in improving patient safety. In recent years, a multitude of evidence, mostly originating from developed countries, has been published on patient safety culture. One of the first efforts to assess the culture of safety in the Eastern Mediterranean Region was by El-...

BACKGROUND Patient safety culture is an integral aspect of good standard of care. A good patient safety culture is believed to be a prerequisite for safe medical care. However, there is little evidence on whether general education can enhance patient safety culture. OBJECTIVE Our aim was to assess the impact of a standardized patient safety course on health care worker patient safety culture....