scholarly journals Patient safety climate (PSC) perceptions of frontline staff in acute care hospitals

2015 ◽  
Vol 40 (1) ◽  
pp. 13-23 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shahram Zaheer ◽  
Liane Ginsburg ◽  
You-Ta Chuang ◽  
Sherry L. Grace
Keyword(s):  
Patient Safety ◽  
Acute Care ◽  
Safety Climate ◽  
Acute Care Hospitals ◽  
Frontline Staff ◽  
Patient Safety Climate

Quality improvement in hospitals: barriers and facilitators

2017 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
pp. 16-24 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dick E. Zoutman ◽  
B. Douglas Ford
Keyword(s):  
Patient Safety ◽  
Quality Improvement ◽  
Patient Care ◽  
Acute Care ◽  
Medical Staff ◽  
Acute Care Hospitals ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Active Involvement ◽  
Staff Engagement ◽  
Positive Impacts

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine quality improvement (QI) initiatives in acute care hospitals, the factors associated with success, and the impacts on patient care and safety. Design/methodology/approach An extensive online survey was completed by senior managers responsible for QI. The survey assessed QI project types, QI methods, staff engagement, and barriers and factors in the success of QI initiatives. Findings The response rate was 37 percent, 46 surveys were completed from 125 acute care hospitals. QI initiatives had positive impacts on patient safety and care. Staff in all hospitals reported conducting past or present hand-hygiene QI projects and C. difficile and surgical site infection were the next most frequent foci. Hospital staff not having time and problems with staff prioritizing QI with other duties were identified as important QI barriers. All respondents reported hospital leadership support, data utilization and internal champions as important QI facilitators. Multiple regression models identified nurses’ active involvement and medical staff engagement in QI with improved patient care and physicians’ active involvement and medical staff engagement with greater patient safety. Practical implications There is the need to study how best to support and encourage physicians and nurses to become more engaged in QI. Originality/value QI initiatives were shown to have positive impacts on patient safety and patient care and barriers and facilitating factors were identified. The results indicated patient care and safety would benefit from increased physician and nurse engagement in QI initiatives.

scholarly journals The Impact of Patient Safety Climate on Medical Errors in a Sample of Nurses: Creating Safer Health Care.

Health Scope ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 1 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Seyed Bagher Mortazavi ◽  
Morteza Oostakhan ◽  
Amirabbas Mofidi ◽  
Aliakbar Babaei
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Patient Safety ◽  
Medical Errors ◽  
Safety Climate ◽  
Patient Safety Climate ◽  
The Impact

scholarly journals Measuring Patient Safety Climate in Acute Stroke Therapy

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ferdinand O. Bohmann ◽  
Joachim Guenther ◽  
Katharina Gruber ◽  
Tanja Manser ◽  
Helmuth Steinmetz ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Patient Safety ◽  
Acute Stroke ◽  
Safety Climate ◽  
Stroke Care ◽  
University Hospitals ◽  
Acute Stroke Care ◽  
Safety Attitudes ◽  
Patient Safety Climate ◽  
Stroke Team ◽  
First Time

Background: Treatment of acute stroke is highly time-dependent and performed by a multiprofessional, interdisciplinary team. Interface problems are expectable and issues relevant to patient safety are omnipresent. The Safety Attitudes Questionnaire (SAQ) is a validated and widely used instrument to measure patient safety climate. The objective of this study was to evaluate the SAQ for the first time in the context of acute stroke care.Methods: A survey was carried out during the STREAM trial (NCT 032282) at seven university hospitals in Germany from October 2017 to October 2018. The anonymous survey included 33 questions (5-point Likert scale, 1 = disagree to 5 = agree) and addressed the entire multiprofessional stroke team. Statistical analyses were used to examine psychometric properties as well as descriptive findings.Results: 164 questionnaires were completed yielding a response rate of 66.4%. 67.7% of respondents were physicians and 25.0% were nurses. Confirmatory Factor Analysis revealed that the original 6-factor structure fits the data adequately. The SAQ for acute stroke care showed strong internal consistency (α = 0.88). Exploratory analysis revealed differences in scores on the SAQ dimensions when comparing physicians to nurses and when comparing physicians according to their duration of professional experience.Conclusion: The SAQ is a helpful and well-applicable tool to measure patient safety in acute stroke care. In comparison to other high-risk fields in medicine, patient safety climate in acute stroke care seems to be on a similar level with the potential for further improvements.Trial registration:www.ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT032282.

Patient Safety Climate

2018 ◽  
Vol 63 (3) ◽  
pp. 175-192 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andre S. Avramchuk ◽  
Stephen J.J. McGuire
Keyword(s):  
Patient Safety ◽  
Safety Climate ◽  
Patient Safety Climate

Measuring patient safety climate in operating rooms: Validation of the Spanish version of the hospital survey on patient safety

2020 ◽  
pp. 095148482094359
Author(s):  
Jose Hugo Arias Botero ◽  
Ruben Dario Gomez Arias ◽  
Angela Maria Segura Cardona ◽  
Fernando Acosta Rodriguez ◽  
Jose Antonio Quesada Rico ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Patient Safety ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Safety Climate ◽  
Health Workers ◽  
Operating Rooms ◽  
Spanish Version ◽  
Survey Validation ◽  
Patient Safety Climate ◽  
Surgical Units ◽  
Latin American Countries

Objective The measurement of patient safety climate within hospitals, and specifically in operating rooms is a basic tool for the development of the patient’s safety policy. There are no validated Spanish versions of instruments to measure safety climate. The objective of this research was to validate the Spanish version of the Hospital Survey on Patient Safety (HSOPS®), with the addition of a module for surgical units, to evaluate the patient safety climate in operating rooms. Methods Survey validation study. The Hospital Survey on Patient Safety (HSOPS®) was applied to health workers from 6 acute general hospitals, from Medellín (Colombia), with surgical procedures greater than 300 per month, 18 items were added considered specific for Operating Rooms. For construct validation, an exploratory factor analysis (EFA) was used, utilizing principal components as the extraction method. Reliability was evaluated with Cronbach’s α. Results A 10 dimensions model was obtained with EFA, most of the dimensions of the original questionnaire were conserved, although the factorial structure was not reproduced. Two new dimensions emerged from the added items. The Cronbach’s α ranged between 0.66 and 0.87. Conclusions: We found the HSOPS questionnaire is valid and reliable for measuring patient safety climate in Spanish speaking Latin American countries. Two additional dimensions are proposed for Operating Rooms.

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