The association between patient safety culture and adverse events - a scoping review.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Adverse events (AEs) affect 10% of in-hospital patients, causing increased costs, injuries, disability and mortality. Patient safety culture (PSC) is an indicator of quality in healthcare services and is thus perceived as a proxy for the quality of care. Previous studies show variation in the association between PSC scores and AE rates. The main objective of this scoping review is to summarise the evidence on the association between PSC scores and AE rates in healthcare services. In addition, map the characteristics and the applied research methodology in the included studies, and study the strengths and limitations of the evidence.

Methods

We applied a scoping review methodology to answer the broad research questions of this study, following the PRISMA-ScR checkl

SUBMITTER: Vikan M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10053753 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature