Assessing Patient Safety Culture in United States Hospitals

Abdulmajeed Azyabi, Waldemar Karwowski, Peter Hancock, Thomas T. H. Wan and Ahmad Elshennawy
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Abdulmajeed Azyabi: Department of Industrial Engineering and Management Systems, University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL 32816, USA
Waldemar Karwowski: Department of Industrial Engineering and Management Systems, University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL 32816, USA
Peter Hancock: Department of Industrial Engineering and Management Systems, University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL 32816, USA
Thomas T. H. Wan: Department of Health Management and Informatics, University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL 32816, USA
Ahmad Elshennawy: Department of Industrial Engineering and Management Systems, University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL 32816, USA

IJERPH, 2022, vol. 19, issue 4, 1-15

Abstract: A positive patient safety culture plays a major role in reducing medical errors and increasing productivity among healthcare staff. Furthermore, understanding staff perceptions of patient safety culture and effective patient safety factors is a first step toward enhancing quality of care and patient safety. The objectives of this study were to assess patient safety culture in hospitals in the United States and to investigate the effects of hospital and respondent characteristics on perceived patient safety culture. An analysis of 67,010 respondents in the 2018 Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) comparative database was conducted with partial least squares structural equation modeling (PLS-SEM). The results revealed that perceptions of patient safety culture had a positive influence on the overall perceptions of patient safety and frequency of event reporting. Moreover, staff position, teaching status, and geographic region were found to have varying influence on the patient safety culture, overall perceptions of patient safety, and frequency of event reporting.

Keywords: patient safety culture; AHRQ; PLS-SEM (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I I1 I3 Q Q5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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