Patient safety has become a priority in healthcare system and patient safety culture among health care workers is a driving force for its application. To assess patient safety culture dimensions at work unit level among HCWs in Tanta University Hospitals. A crosssectional study was conducted over a period of 1 year using Hospital Survey on Patient Safety Culture of AHRQ. The dimensions with the highest positive responses were; teamwork within hospital units, organizational learning-continuous improvement, and supervisors/ manager expectations and actions promoting safety (, , and , respectively) and the least positive response was in the dimension of non-punitive response to error (). Non-punitive work environment is essential to facilitate change in patient safety culture where blameless reporting helps better detection and management of adverse events. |
