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Culture as cure : assessments of patient safety culture in OECD countries.

by de Bienassis, Katherine; Kristensen, Solvejg; Burtscher, Magdalena; Brownwood, Ian; Klazinga, Nicolaas S.Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.
Series: OECD Health Working Papers ; 119; DELSA/HEA/WD/HWP(2020)4.Publisher: OECD, Paris : 2019.Description: 102p.ISSN: 18152015.Summary: While health care quality has been improving on average in OECD members countries, patient safety remains a central priority for policy makers and health care leaders. A growing research body has found that PSC [patient safety culture] is associated with numerous positive outcomes, including improved health outcomes, improved patient experience, and organisational productivity and staff satisfaction. Tools to measure PSC have proliferated in recent decades and are now in wide-spread use. This report includes findings from OECD countries on the state of the art for measurement practices related to PSC. Overall, measurement of PSC is prevalent across OECD countries, though the application, purpose, and tools vary. International learning and benchmarking has significant potential for better understanding and improvement of patient safety and health care quality..Subject(s): patient safety | risk management | organisational culture | health outcomes | measurement techniques | performance indicators | health systems | statistical data | Europe | international perspectives
Digital copyAvailability: Online access | Online access Note: ; OECD Health Working Papers. List(s) this item appears in: Patient safety in the NHS [September 2023]
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While health care quality has been improving on average in OECD members countries, patient safety remains a central priority for policy makers and health care leaders. A growing research body has found that PSC [patient safety culture] is associated with numerous positive outcomes, including improved health outcomes, improved patient experience, and organisational productivity and staff satisfaction. Tools to measure PSC have proliferated in recent decades and are now in wide-spread use. This report includes findings from OECD countries on the state of the art for measurement practices related to PSC. Overall, measurement of PSC is prevalent across OECD countries, though the application, purpose, and tools vary. International learning and benchmarking has significant potential for better understanding and improvement of patient safety and health care quality.

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