Rationale, aims and objectives Building a strong and positive safety culture in health care
teams and organizations is essential for patient safety. Measuring individual perceptions of …

Introduction Building a safety culture is an important part of improving patient care.
Measuring perceptions of safety climate among healthcare teams and organisations is a key …

Aim: To explore the factor structure, reliability, and potential usefulness of a patient safety
climate questionnaire in UK health care. Setting: Four acute hospital trusts and nine primary …

Objective: Great importance has been attached to a culture of safe practice in healthcare
organisations, but it has proved difficult to engage frontline staff with this complex concept …

Objectives Although most health care interactions in the developed world occur in general
practice, most of the literature on patient safety has focused on secondary care services. To …

Background Patient safety culture is how leader and staff interaction, attitudes, routines and
practices protect patients from adverse events in healthcare. The Safety Attitudes …

Background: There is little guidance available to healthcare practitioners about what tools
they might use to assess the patient safety culture. Objective: To identify useful tools for …

Aim: To review quantitative studies of safety climate in health care to examine the
psychometric properties of the questionnaires designed to measure this construct. Method: A …

Accomplishments of the growing body of literature on safety climate in healthcare include
developing and validating a number of comprehensive measures of safety climate3–5; …

Background When improving patient safety a positive safety culture is key. As little is known
about improving patient safety culture in primary care, this study examined whether …