Perceptions of hospital safety climate and incidence of readmission.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To define the relationship between hospital patient safety climate (a measure of hospitals' organizational culture as related to patient safety) and hospitals' rates of rehospitalization within 30 days of discharge.

Data sources

A safety climate survey administered to a random sample of hospital employees (n=36,375) in 2006-2007 and risk-standardized hospital readmission rates from 2008.

Study design

Cross-sectional study of 67 hospitals.

Data collection

Robust multiple regressions used 30-day risk-standardized readmission rates as dependent variables in separate disease-specific models (acute myocardial infarction [AMI], heart failure [HF], pneumonia), and measures of safety climate as independent variables. We estimated separate models for all hospi

SUBMITTER: Hansen LO 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3064921 | biostudies-literature | 2011 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature