Background Patient safety in hospitals is being jeopardized, since too many patients
experience adverse events. Most of these adverse events arise from human factors, such as …

Background Inter-professional teamwork is a prominent factor in quality of care and may
lead to improved patient safety. Although team members' points of view are highly relevant …

Introduction Patients represent an important and as yet untapped source of information
about the factors that contribute to the safety of their care. The aim of the current study is to …

Aim of the study: Poor safety culture, bad teamwork, non-functional inter-departmental
working relationships and increased cognitive demands are associated with higher amounts …

Aims: To investigate the role of clinician burnout, demographic, and organizational
characteristics in predicting subjective and objective indicators of patient safety …

Background Safety culture has been identified as having a major impact on how safety is
managed in healthcare. However, it has not received much attention in general practices …

Objective: Five years ago the Institute of Medicine recommended improving patient safety by
addressing organizational cultural issues. Since then, surveys measuring a patient safety …

Objectives We sought to examine the association between willingness of health-care
professionals to speak up about patient safety concerns and their perceptions of two types of …

Purpose To learn the weaknesses and strengths of safety culture as expressed by the
dimensions measured by the Hospital Survey on Patient Safety Culture (HSOPSC) at …

Background Medically complex patients present challenges to the health care system,
particularly in the emergency department (ED) setting. Specifically, teamwork is thought to …