作者
David T Huang, Gilles Clermont, Lan Kong, Lisa A Weissfeld, J Bryan Sexton, Kathy M Rowan, Derek C Angus
发表日期
2010/6/1
期刊
International Journal for Quality in Health Care
卷号
22
期号
3
页码范围
151-161
出版商
Oxford University Press
简介
Objective
Safety culture may influence patient outcomes, but evidence is limited. We sought to determine if intensive care unit (ICU) safety culture is independently associated with outcomes.
Design
Cohort study combining safety culture survey data with the Project IMPACT Critical Care Medicine (PICCM) clinical database.
Setting
Thirty ICUs participating in the PICCM database.
Participants
A total of 65 978 patients admitted January 2001–March 2005.
Interventions
None.
Main outcome measures
Hospital mortality and length of stay (LOS).
Methods
From December 2003 to April 2004, we surveyed study ICUs using the Safety Attitudes Questionnaire-ICU version, a validated instrument that assesses safety culture across six factors. We calculated factor mean and percent …
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