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. 2019 Dec 6:12:275-285.
doi: 10.2147/RMHP.S223097. eCollection 2019.

Assessing Building Blocks for Patient Safety Culture-a Quantitative Assessment of Saudi Arabia

Zeid Alrowely  1 , Omar Ghazi Baker  2
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Assessing Building Blocks for Patient Safety Culture-a Quantitative Assessment of Saudi Arabia

Zeid Alrowely et al. Risk Manag Healthc Policy. .

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Abstract

Purpose: The study analyzes staffs' perception of a safety culture and their knowledge of safety measures in the hospitals of Saudi Arabia.

Patients and methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted by considering six different public hospitals from Arar city, and by recruiting 503 nurses. Building blocks of patient safety culture were measured through survey questions.

Results: The highest positive rating (81%) was received by both "people support one another in this unit" and "in this unit, people treat each other with respect." Supervisor/manager expectations and actions promoting patient safety was rated neutrally (n = 283; 56%) with an average mean score of 3.17±0.50, which suggested a neutral response by participants. Organizational learning, along with continuous improvement, was positively rated (n = 406; 81%) with an average mean score of 3.93±0.61.

Conclusion: It demonstrated that participant nurses neither disagree nor agree on the level of patient safety culture prevailing in their hospital setting.

Keywords: environment; nurses; perception; safety management.

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Conflict of interest statement

The authors report no conflicts of interest in this work.

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