Hospital handoffs and transition

Notes Safety Culture Dimension 1 Hospital management support for patient safety 2 Supervisor/manager expectations/actions 3 Teamwork across hospital units 4 Teamwork within units 5 Communication openness 6 Hospital handoffs and transitions 7 Nonpunitive response to error 8 Feedback and communication about error 9 Staffing 10 Organizational learning Outcome dimensions 11 Overall perceptions of safety 12 Frequency of event reporting. 

Based on the literature review, key dimensions of hospital patient safety culture were identified and items drafted to measure those dimensions. Items were written to obtain a staff-level perspeetive of the extent to which a hospital organisation s culture supports patient safety and event reporting. In addition, most of the items were foeused on the respondent s own work area or unit beeause unit-level eulture is more salient and relevant and has the most immediate influenee on staff attitudes and behaviors. Sinee eulture varies aeross units, it was important to foeus respondents on their own unit s eulture by asking them to identify and seleet their unit first and then answer the questions in the survey about that unit. However, some patient safety eulture issues cut across units, so the last part of the survey foeused specifically on hospital-wide patient safety eulture, ineluding handoffs and transitions, pereeptions of management support and teamwork aeross units. 

Handoffs and transitions Important patient care information is transferred across hospital units and during shift changes... 

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