| Measuring and benchmarking safety culture: application of the safety attitudes questionnaire to an acute medical admissions unit. | |
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PMID: 19437091 Owner: NLM Status: In-Process |
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OBJECTIVES: To assess the safety culture in an acute medical admissions unit (AMAU) of a teaching hospital in order to benchmark results against international data and guide a unit-based, integrated, risk management strategy. METHODS: The safety attitudes questionnaire (SAQ), a validated instrument for the measurement of safety culture was applied to an AMAU. All AMAU healthcare staff (n = 92) were surveyed: doctors, nurses, healthcare assistants (HCAs) and allied healthcare professionals (AHPs). Safety attitude scores for the overall unit and individual caregiver types were assessed across six domains of safety culture. RESULTS: When compared against an international benchmark, the AMAU scored significantly higher for four of the six safety domains: p < 0.01 for 'teamwork climate', 'safety climate' and 'stress recognition' and p < 0.05 for 'job satisfaction'. The difference between nurse manager scores and the overall mean for the study group was statistically significant for the domains of 'teamwork climate' (p < 0.05) and 'safety climate' (p < 0.01). HCAs scored significantly lower relative to staff overall with regard to 'working conditions' (p < 0.05) and 'perceptions of management' (p < 0.01). CONCLUSIONS: The SAQ was successfully applied to an AMAU setting giving a valuable insight into staff issues of concern across the safety spectrum: employee and environmental safety, clinical risk management and medication safety. |
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E Relihan; S Glynn; D Daly; B Silke; S Ryder |
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Type: Journal Article |
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Title: Irish journal of medical science Volume: 178 ISSN: 1863-4362 ISO Abbreviation: Ir J Med Sci Publication Date: 2009 Dec |
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Created Date: 2011-04-05 Completed Date: - Revised Date: - |
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Nlm Unique ID: 7806864 Medline TA: Ir J Med Sci Country: Ireland |
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Languages: eng Pagination: 433-9 Citation Subset: IM |
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Medication Safety, St. James’s Hospital, Dublin, Ireland. erelihan@stjames.ie |
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