After 5 years of action: has patient safety culture improved in the Belgian hospitals? Results of a benchmark database

ABSTRACT Introduction: Reason (1998) highlights that safety culture 'is a concept whose time has come', stating that there is both a challenge and an opportunity to develop a clear theoretical understanding of organizational issues to create a principled basis for more effective culture enhancing practices. An organization requires safety culture as a product of combined effects of organizational culture, professional culture and often national culture. These organizations include hospitals where patient safety culture is a major area of concern. Objective: This study seeks to know if there ar... Mehr ...