Healthcare professionals' perspectives on working conditions, leadership, and safety climate: a cross-sectional study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Promoting patient and occupational safety are two key challenges for hospitals. When aiming to improve these two outcomes synergistically, psychosocial working conditions, leadership by hospital management and supervisors, and perceptions of patient and occupational safety climate have to be considered. Recent studies have shown that these key topics are interrelated and form a critical foundation for promoting patient and occupational safety in hospitals. So far, these topics have mainly been studied independently from each other. The present study investigated hospital staffs' perceptions of four different topics: (1) psychosocial working conditions, (2) leadership, (3) patient safety climate, and (4) occupational safety climate. We present results from a survey in two

SUBMITTER: Wagner A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6341698 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature