INTRODUCTION Patient safety culture is a concept which describes how leader and staff interaction, attitudes, routines and practices protect patients from adverse events in healthcare. We aimed to investigate patient safety culture in Slovenian out-of-hours health care (OOHC) clinics, and determine the possible factors that might be associated with it. METHODS This was a cross-sectional study...

BACKGROUND Workplace safety culture is a crucial ingredient in patients' outcomes and is increasingly being explored as a guide for quality improvement efforts. OBJECTIVES To establish a baseline understanding of the safety culture in Australian intensive care units. METHODS In a nationwide study of physicians and nurses in 10 Australian intensive care units, the Safety Attitudes Questionna...

BACKGROUND There is widespread interest in measuring healthcare provider attitudes about issues relevant to patient safety (often called safety climate or safety culture). Here we report the psychometric properties, establish benchmarking data, and discuss emerging areas of research with the University of Texas Safety Attitudes Questionnaire. METHODS Six cross-sectional surveys of health care...

BACKGROUND Teamwork-that is, collaboration and communication-is an important factor for safe healthcare, but professions perceive the quality of teamwork differently. OBJECTIVE To examine the relationship between simulation-based team training (SBTT) and different professions' self-efficacy, experienced quality of collaboration and communication, perceptions of teamwork and safety, together w...

This study was conducted because a real method for measuring safety climate had never been developed and assessed in Serbian industry. The aim of this paper was to start the process of developing a safety climate questionnaire that could be used in Serbia. As a starting point a 21-item questionnaire was adopted after an extensive literature review. The questionnaire was distributed at several S...

evaluating patient safety culture in personnel of academic hospitals in urmia university of medical sciences in 2011     baghaei r [1] , nourani d [2] * , khalkhali hr [3] , pirnejad h [4]     received: 10 oct , 2011 accepted: 2 jan , 2012   abstract   background & aims : healthcare organizations in iran are striving to improve patient safety and quality of care through implementation of safety...

PROBLEM The present study describes a response to eight tragic deaths over an eighteen month times span on a fast track construction project on the largest commercial development project in U.S. history. METHODS Four versions of a survey were distributed to workers, foremen, superintendents, and senior management. In addition to standard Likert-scale safety climate scale items, an open-ended ...