Patient Safety Culture (PSC) perceptions of front-line staff in acute care hospitals: Examining the role of ease of reporting, group norms of openness, and participative leadership

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dc.contributor.authorGrace, Sherry
dc.contributor.authorChuang, You-Ta
dc.contributor.authorGinsburg, Liane
dc.contributor.authorZaheer, Shahram
dc.date.accessioned2021-03-29T19:21:01Z
dc.date.available2021-03-29T19:21:01Z
dc.date.issued2015-01
dc.description.abstractBackground: Increased awareness regarding the importance of patient safety issues has led to the proliferation of theoretical conceptualizations, frameworks, and papers that apply safety experiences from high-reliability industries to medical settings. However, empirical research on patient safety and patient safety climate in medical settings still lags far behind the theoretical literature on these topics. Purpose: The broader organizational literature suggests that ease of reporting, unit norms of openness, and participative leadership might be important variables for improving patient safety. The aim of this empirical study is to examine in detail how these three variables influence frontline staff perceptions of patient safety climate within healthcare organizations. Methodology: A cross sectional study design was used. Data were collected using a questionnaire composed of previously validated scales. Findings: The results of the study show that ease of reporting, unit norms of openness, and participative leadership are positively related to staff perceptions of patient safety climate. Practice Implications: Healthcare management needs to involve frontline staff during the development and implementation stages of an error reporting system to ensure staff perceive error reporting to be easy and efficient. Senior and supervisory leaders at healthcare organizations must be provided with learning opportunities to improve their participative leadership skills so they can better integrate frontline staff ideas and concerns while making safety related decisions. Lastly, healthcare management must ensure that frontline staff are able to freely communicate safety concerns without fear of being punished or ridiculed by others.en_US
dc.identifier.citationHealth Care Management Review: January/March 2015 - Volume 40 - Issue 1 - p 13-23en_US
dc.identifier.issn0361-6274
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.1097/HMR.0000000000000005en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10315/38276
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherWolters Kluweren_US
dc.rightsLWW This is a non-final version of an article published in final form in (Health Care Management Review: January/March 2015 - Volume 40 - Issue 1 - p 13-23). https://cdn-tp2.mozu.com/16833-m1/cms/files/Author-Document.pdf?_mzts=636519775710000000en_US
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dc.rights.articlehttps://journals.lww.com/hcmrjournal/Abstract/2015/01000/Patient_safety_climate__PSC__perceptions_of.3.aspxen_US
dc.rights.journalhttps://journals.lww.com/hcmrjournal/pages/default.aspxen_US
dc.rights.publisherhttps://www.wolterskluwer.com/en-caen_US
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0/*
dc.subjectease of error reportingen_US
dc.subjectparticipative leadershipen_US
dc.subjectpatient safety climateen_US
dc.subjectpatient safety outcomesen_US
dc.subjectunit norms of opennessen_US
dc.titlePatient Safety Culture (PSC) perceptions of front-line staff in acute care hospitals: Examining the role of ease of reporting, group norms of openness, and participative leadershipen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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