Patient Safety Culture

A review published in the Australian Health Review highlighted that despite efforts to improve patient safety culture (PSC), health professional groups have different views and do not perceive their organisations to be promoting patient safety.
Although many factors affect patient safety, in the US the Institute of Medicine identified hospital organisational culture as one factor contributing to a reduction in errors. From an Australian perspective, there is a lack of recent PSC literature in acute hospital settings in Australia, which is highlighted and discussed the the review.
The full article, Health professionals’ perception of patient safety culture in acute hospitals: an integrative review can be read here.