Culture as a cure
Assessments of patient safety culture in OECD countries
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 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.
Published on June 02, 2020
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