BACKGROUND Safety attitude surveys have been widely conducted in various disciplines, but not among respiratory therapists (RTs), to assess clinician's awareness of patient safety. We conducted a nationwide survey in Taiwan to assess RTs' safety attitudes in several hospital settings. METHODS We adapted the Safety Attitude Questionnaire for RTs, and, via the RTs' union, invited all Taiwan RTs...

Background: The issues of patient safety and healthcare quality have become increasingly important around the world since the 1990s. Many hospitals manage to reduce the number of adverse events (AEs) that can threaten patient safety in healthcare organizations. Assessing the existing patient safety culture gives hospital management a clear vision of an organization’s strengths ...

BACKGROUND There is widespread interest in measuring healthcare provider attitudes about issues relevant to patient safety (often called safety climate or safety culture). Here we report the psychometric properties, establish benchmarking data, and discuss emerging areas of research with the University of Texas Safety Attitudes Questionnaire. METHODS Six cross-sectional surveys of health care...

Although this article is long, we believe that it is worth reading. It answers the most fundamental question that patient safety professionals have asked: How do we measure the overall safety attitudes score of each person? Broadly speaking, we showed how to structuralize various safety-related traits in one’s mind, using the Safety Attitudes Questionnaire-Korean version as an example. We appli...

olive oil is one of the foods that are preferred by consumers seeking healthy nutrition. healthy, safety and high quality olive oil production can only be achieved in olive oil enterprises that follow these criteria. therefore, food safety and quality management systems should be placed in these olive oil enterprises. the aim of this study was to determine behaviors and attitudes of firm owners...

Objective To identify the attitude of health professionals toward the patient safety culture at a bone marrow transplant unit. Methods Quantitative research approach, cross-sectional survey conducted at a bone marrow transplant unit in Santa Catarina, Brazil. Data were collected using a Safety Attitudes Questionnaire with 33 health professionals in August and September of 2013. A total of 37 at...

Background: Patient safety culture in healthcare organizations has become an important issue globally for improving medical services. In 2016, Taiwan’s National Health Insurance (NHI) system covered 99.6% of Taiwan’s population. With the enhancement of medical quality, patients expect medical service providers to care more about safety and medical service. Understanding physici...

A self-regulatory model was proposed to examine how di€erent organisations manage safety, with particular emphasis on the human and organisational aspects. The relationships of di€erent aspects of safety culture and safety management systems were explored through the deployment of di€erent research measures and methods. Studies of four aircraft maintenance organisations included analysis of doc...