Safety culture dimensions

Safety Culture Dimensions, Patient Safety Outcomes and Their Correlations... 

Table 4.1 Safety culture dimensions in instmments most widely used...

Generalising from a number of dimensions suggested by former studies, safety culture dimensions can be classified into two parts (1) general, core elements that are conunonly applicable to any healthcare context, e.g. field, organisational type and coimtry, and (2) nation-dependent elements that are specific to a national culture or the coimtry s healthcare system. 

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. 

Schwendimann, R., Zimmermann, N., Kung, K., Ausserhofer, D. and Sexton, B. 2013. Variation in safety culture dimensions within and between US and Swiss Hospital Units An exploratory study. BMJ Quality and Safety, 22(1), 32 1. 

Examples (obtained from a survey) of interventions to improve specific safety culture dimensions that were implemented in Belgian hospitals after the baseline measurement are displayed in Table 14.1. 

Table 14.2 Reliability of the 12 safety culture dimensions for Belgian...

FIGURE 15.10 Mean safety culture dimension ratings. 

FIG U RE 15.11 Mean safety culture dimension ratings per job role group. 

These five safety culture dimensions comprise the basis for the review by SCART (Safety Culture Assessment Review Team), a service offered by the IAEA. 

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