Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Giménez-Júlvez, Teresa
• Hernández-García, Ignacio
• Aibar-Remón, Carlos
• Gutiérrez-Cía, Isabel
• Febrel-Bordejé, Mercedes

Titel

Patient safety culture in directors and managers of a health service

Ist Teil von

• Gaceta sanitaria, 2017-09, Vol.31 (5), p.423

Ort / Verlag

Spain

Erscheinungsjahr

2017

Quelle

MEDLINE

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• To assess patient safety culture in directors/managers. Cross-sectional descriptive study carried out from February to June 2011 among the executive/managing staff of the Aragón Health Service through semi-structured interviews. A total of 12 interviews were carried out. All the respondents admitted that there were many patient safety problems and agreed that patient safety was a priority from a theoretical rather than practical perspective. The excessive changes in executive positions was considered to be an important barrier which made it difficult to establish long-term strategies and achieve medium-term continuity. This study recorded perceptions on patient safety culture in directors, an essential factor to improve patient safety culture in this group and in the organisations they run.