Interprofessional team assessments of the patient safety climate in Swedish operating rooms: a cross-sectional survey.

ABSTRACT:

Background

A positive patient safety climate within teams has been associated with higher safety performance. The aim of this study was to describe and compare attitudes to patient safety among the various professionals in surgical teams in Swedish operating room (OR) departments. A further aim was to study nurse managers in the OR and medical directors' estimations of their staffs' attitudes to patient safety.

Methods

A cross-sectional survey with the Safety Attitudes Questionnaire (SAQ) was used to elicit estimations from surgical teams. To evoke estimations from nurse managers and medical directors about staff attitudes to patient safety, a short questionnaire, based on SAQ, was used. Three OR departments at three different hospitals in Sweden participated. All licensed p

SUBMITTER: Goras C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5588952 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature