Comparative assessment of patient safety culture performance in OECD countries
Findings based on the Hospital Survey on Patient Safety Culture versions 1 and 2
Safety is a core dimension of health care quality. Measurement of patient safety culture
in OECD countries has been increasingly conducted as part of efforts to monitor patient
safety and to contribute to health system performance assessment. Building on four
years of work, a second OECD data collection on patient safety culture was conducted
in 2022-2023, with the support of the members of OECD Expert Group on Patient Safety
Culture. Data from almost 650,000 health care workers, from over 3,000 different sites/hospitals,
across 14 countries was added in this round of data collection. This report documents
the state-of-the-art of patient safety measurement using the Hospital Survey of Patient
Safety Culture (HSPSC) and is the first report to document international comparisions
using the HSPSC v2, which has been recently adopted by ten countries who submitted
data. Despite many commonalities between countries in the implementation of PSC measurements,
there remains differences in the scope of implementation and survey response rates.
Moreover, survey findings show general deficits in staff perceptions of safe staffing
and workpace levels and response to errors among hospital workers, areas that could
be targeted for policy action to improve patient safety.
Published on July 12, 2024
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