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culture, and comprise teamwork; staffing and work pace, organizational learning; response to error, supervisor, manager or clinical leader support for patient safety; communication about error; communication openness; reporting patient safety events, hospital management support for patient safety; and handoffs and information exchange. The second is single-item measures, including number of events reported; patient safety rating; and background questions.
The AHRQ Hospital Survey on Patient Safety Culture Version 2.0: User’ s Guide walks users through a series of steps before, during and after the launch of a safety culture survey and provides a number
This resource and the survey materials are available here
of forms that institutions can use when planning and executing their survey.
Going forward, it’ s a matter of understanding that absent longitudinal controlled
trials,“ it may not be possible to separate the effect of safety culture from that of implementing effective intervention strategies on HAIs,” Braun, et al.( 2021) note. However, they add,“ There remains value in evaluating safety culture in order to understand staff perceptions, identify opportunities for improvement, and implement interventions that ultimately benefit staff and patients.”
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