The relationship between organizational leadership for safety and learning from patient safety events.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To examine the relationship between organizational leadership for patient safety and five types of learning from patient safety events (PSEs).

Study setting

Forty-nine general acute care hospitals in Ontario, Canada.

Study design

A nonexperimental design using cross-sectional surveys of hospital patient safety officers (PSOs) and patient care managers (PCMs). PSOs provided data on organization-level learning from (a) minor events, (b) moderate events, (c) major near misses, (d) major event analysis, and (e) major event dissemination/communication. PCMs provided data on organizational leadership (formal and informal) for patient safety.

Extraction methods

Hospitals were the unit of analysis. Seemingly unrelated regression was used to examine the influe

SUBMITTER: Ginsburg LR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC2875751 | biostudies-literature | 2010 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature