Patient Safety Culture hospitals

Around 2004 the first safety culture tools designed for healthcare began to appear. Maity of these tools are in the form of survey instruments or questioimaires, the two most well-known being the Hospital Survey on Patient Safety Culture (HSPSC) developed by the US Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) and the Safety Attitudes Questionnaire (SAQ - Sexton et al. 2006). Both instruments are described in detail within the book and illustrated with... 

Within hospitals several distinct groups operate, with different functions, tasks and experiences and with different educational backgrounds. Through interaction between them and with patients, common systems of meaning will develop in teams, wards, departments and even hospitals. Because these interactions will be intense and often emotion-laden, several of these meanings around patient safety will be profound. Moreover, public attention to patient safety will also have shaped these meanings. Overall, the notion of patient safety culture appears to have face validity. 

Mardon, R.E., Khanna, K., Sorra, J., Dyer, N. and Famolaro, T. 2010. Exploring relationships between hospital patient safety culture and adverse events. Journal of Patient Safety, 6(4), 226-32. 

Sorra, J., Famolaro, T., Dyer, N., Nelson, D. andKhanna, K. 2009. Hospital Survey on Patient Safety Culture 2009 Comparative Database Report. Agency for Healthcare Research and CJrrality, AHRQ Ptrblication No. 09-0030, Rockville, MD. 

Smits, M., Christiaans-Dingelhoff, 1., Wagner, C., van der Wal, G. and Groenewegen, P.P. 2008. The psychometric properties of the Hospital Survey on Patient Safety Culture in Dutch hospitals. Biomed Central Health Services... 

Sorra, J.S. and Nieva, YE 2004. Hospital Survey on Patient Safety Culture. Rockville, MD Agency for healthcare research and quality. Available at www.ahrq.gov/qual/hospculture/hospcult.pdf (last accessed on 16 April 2014). 

Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ 2012). 2012 User Comparative Database Report Hospital Survey on Patient Safety Culture. AHRQ, Rockville, MD. Available at http //www.ahrq.gov/qual/hospsurveyl2/ (last accessed on 14 June 2013). 

Bodur, S. andFiliz, E. 2010. Validity and reliabihty of Turkish version of Hospital Survey on Patient Safety Culture and perception of patient safety in pubhc hospitals in Turkey. BMC Health Service Research, 10,28. 

Chen, I.-C. and Li, H.-H. 2010. Measuring patient safely culture in Taiwan using the Hospital Survey on Patient Safety Culture (HSOPSC). BMC Health Service Research, 10, 152. 

Olsen, E. 2008. Reliability and validity of the Hospital Siuvey on Patient Safety Culture at a Norwegian hospital. In J. 0vretveit and P. Sousa (eds). Quality and Safety Improvement Research Methods and Research Practice from the International Quality Improvement Research Network (QIRN). Lisbon Escola Nacional de Saiide Piiblica, 173-86. 

Pfeiffer, Y. and Manser, T. 2010. Development of the German version of the Hospital Survey on Patient Safety Culture Dimensionality and psychometric properties. Safety Science, 48(10), 1452-62. 

Sarac, C., Flin, R., Meams, K. and Jackson, J. 2011. Hospital Survey on Patient Safety Culture Psychometric analysis on a Scottish sample. BMJ Quality Safety, 20, 842-8. 

Waterson, RE. and Hutchinson, A. 2011. Use of the Hospital Survey of Patient Safety Culture - A review of the current evidence base, in S. Albolino, S. Bagnara, T. Bellandi, J. Llaneza, G. Rosal-Lopez and R. TartagUa (eds). Healthcare Economics and Patient Safety (HEPS 2011), 22-4 June 2011, Oviedo, Spain. Taylor Francis CRC Press, 473-4. 

One means of gathering data for monitor indicators is patient safety culture questionnaires. We have developed a patient safety culture questionnaire, TUKU, that measures employees perceptions of the organisational functions depicted in Table 9.4 as well as employees psychological states, such as sense of control and worry about patient safety (Reiman et al. 2013). In one hospital, the results of the questionnaire were compared with the ratio of patient safety incidents at the hospital s 40 units 16 months after the safety culture questionnaire was administered. The results, which must be treated with caution due to the small sample size, indicated that perceptions of work process management , work conditions management . 

Scottish Hospital Survey on Patient Safety Culture (SHSPSC)... 

Alahmadi, H.A. 2010. Assessment of patient safety culture in Saudi Arabian hospitals. Quality Safety in Health Care, 19, 1-5. 

Blegen, M.A., Gearhart, S., O Brien, R., Sehgal, N.L. and Alldredge, B.K. 2009. AHRQ s hospital survey on patient safety culture Psychometric analyses. Journal of Patient Safety, 5,139-44. 

In literature several abbreviations are used for the Hospital Survey on Patient Safety Culture (e.g. HSPSC, HSOPSC, HSOPS or SOPS). In the following we will use HSPSC as abbreviation. 

Hanuner, A., Emstinann, N., Onunen, O., Wirtz, M., Manser, X, Pfeiffer, Y. and Pfaff, H. 2011. Psychometric properties of the Hospital Survey of Patient Safety Culture for hospital management (HSOPS M). BMC Health Services Research, 11, 165. 

Kuosmanen, A., Tiihonen, J., Repo-Tiihonen, E., Eronen, M. and Turanen, H. 2013. Patient safety culture in two Finnish state-run forensic psychiatric hospitals. Journal of Forensic Nursing, 9(4), 207-16. 

Murphy, J., Hignett, S., Griffiths, P. and Duibridge, M. 2007. Measuring patient safety culture in a UKNHS hospital with an American assessment tool. 

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