Interdisciplinary differences in patient safety culture within a teaching hospital in Southeast Asia

Abstract

frailer populations. 1 Correspondingly, the improvements achieved in medical therapy are accompanied by increased potential for healthcare-related harm. Additionally, since health systems started encountering compensation claims, this has gained some traction over the last 20-25 years with increasing media interest, with healthcare now considered high risk and complex industry. 2 While differences do exist between treatment-associated risk and medical errors, there is often no clear separation between the two areas, which is often contended during legal tussles involving compensation claims. 3

Effects of COVID-19 on Patient Safety Culture among Staff at a Teaching Hospital in Malaysia

“…The rationale underlying the lack of improvement in scores among nurses compared with other HCWs could be attributed to the higher baseline scores among nurses. 4 However, it was possible that nurses had a lower level of autonomy during the pandemic as redeployment among doctors were carried on a voluntary basis, while nurses were more likely to have been assigned to COVID-19 wards.…”

“…The questionnaire was embedded within the staff portal in both the English and Bahasa Melayu languages as described in the previous study. 4…”

“…The questionnaire was embedded within the staff portal in both the English and Bahasa Melayu languages as described in the previous study. 4 The study was approved by the Ethics Committee of University Malaya Medical Centre (ID: 2018921-6702), informed consent was obtained, and participants could leave the study at any stage. Participation in this study was voluntary.…”

Prof. Vladas Gronskas International Scientific Conference

“…Fostering of safety culture should involve all hospitals. The total involvement would enable all healthcare providers to gain insight into promoting patient safety in a clinical setting (Krishnasamy et al, 2021). In addition, it is assumed that promoting patient safety culture has a potential role in reducing medication failures, and protecting patients from preventable harm (Owusu et al, 2021).…”

Organizational Culture and Teamwork: A Bibliometric Perspective on Public and Private Organizations

“…However, other findings regarding the culture of patient safety reveal a lack of studies that explain the significant variability in the dimensions of the safety climate, professional roles and levels of training [28]. Likewise, there are marked differences between doctors, nurses, assistants, related professionals and support personnel with respect to the safety climate, job satisfaction and work conditions, highlighting unsatisfied commonalities that necessitate improvements in organizational culture that focus mainly on stress [29].…”