Interventions targeting safety culture

Dimensions Examples of interventions targeting safety culture as indicated by participating hospitals... 

Adams-Pizarro et al. (2008) Targeted culture intervention Across two years Hospitals participating in ED, ICU and OR collaboratives Hospital Survey on Patient Safety Culture OR teams improved on seven of 12 culture dimensions, ICU teams on three dimensions, and ED teams on one dimension... 

Clearly, there is a need to measure sources of variation in safety culture perceptions relating to individual and hospital characteristics within hospitals, in order to implement targeted interventions (Jackson et al. 2010). For instance, it is hypothesised that members with the same educational background share a common set of cultural features. In addition, hospitals comprise many different types of wards and units, with a high diversity in offered services, patient populations, organisational stractures and protocols, which might explain variability inpatient safety culture perceptions. So it can be assumed that safety culture is associated with specific professions and with the levels of complexity and intrinsic hazards associated with healthcare delivered in different work areas (Singer et al. 2009). 

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