Does health care role and experience influence perception of safety culture related to preventing infections?

Abstract:

:Growing evidence reveals the importance of improving safety culture in efforts to eliminate health care-associated infections. This multisite, cross-sectional survey examined the association between professional role and health care experience on infection prevention safety culture at 5 hospitals. The findings suggest that frontline health care technicians are less directly engaged in improvement efforts and safety education than other staff and that infection prevention safety culture varies more by hospital than by staff position and experience.

journal_name

Am J Infect Control

authors

Braun BI,Harris AD,Richards CL,Belton BM,Dembry LM,Morton DJ,Xiao Y

doi

10.1016/j.ajic.2012.09.006

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2013-07-01 00:00:00

pages

638-41

issue

7

eissn

0196-6553

issn

1527-3296

pii

S0196-6553(12)01247-3

journal_volume

41

pub_type

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