Recent concern regarding the safety of patients in Western healthcare systems has resulted
in the adoption of safety management techniques used in high-risk industries. One such …

OBJECTIVES: To obtain a measure of hospital safety climate from a sample of National
Health Service (NHS) acute hospitals in Scotland and to test whether these scores were …

Objective: To understand fundamental attitudes towards patient safety culture and ways in
which attitudes vary by hospital, job class, and clinical status. Design: Using a closed ended …

Objective. To describe the development of an instrument for assessing workforce
perceptions of hospital safety culture and to assess its reliability and validity. Data …

Background: Despite the emphasis on patient safety in health care, few organizations have
evaluated the extent to which safety is a strategic priority or their culture supports patient …

Background: Strengthening hospital safety culture offers promise for reducing adverse
events, but efforts to improve culture may not succeed if hospital managers perceive safety …

Objective. To examine the relationship between measures of hospital safety climate and
hospital performance on selected Patient Safety Indicators (PSIs). Data Sources. Primary …

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 …

Background: Concern about patient safety has promoted efforts to improve safety climate. A
better understanding of how patient safety climate differs among distinct work areas and …

Objective. To assess variation in safety climate across VA hospitals nationally. Study Setting.
Data were collected from employees at 30 VA hospitals over a 6‐month period using the …