Patient safety culture lives in departments and wards: Multilevel partitioning of variance in patient safety culture
Open Access
- 31 March 2010
- journal article
- Published by Springer Nature in BMC Health Services Research
- Vol. 10 (1) , 85
Abstract
Aim of study was to document 1) that patient safety culture scores vary considerably by hospital department and ward, and 2) that much of the variation is across the lowest level organizational units: the wards. Setting of study: 500-bed Norwegian university hospital, September-December 2006.Keywords
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