Relationships between dental hygienists' work environment and patient safety culture

Patient safety culture is a core factor in increasing patient safety, is related to the quality of medical service, and can lower the risk of patient safety accidents. However, in dentistry, research has previously focused mostly on reporting of patient safety accidents. Dental professionals' p...

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Published in:BMC health services research 2019-05, Vol.19 (1), p.299-7, Article 299
Main Authors: Choi, Eun-Mi, Mun, So-Jung, Chung, Won-Gyun, Noh, Hie-Jin
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Accident prevention
Accidents
Accreditation
Analysis
Attitude of Health Personnel
Certification
Clinics
Cross-Sectional Studies
Dental hygienist
Dental Hygienists
Dentistry
Female
Health facilities
Health Facility Administrators - psychology
Health services
Hospital patients
Hospitals
Humans
Male
Medical care
Medical care quality
Medical errors
Medical research
Oral hygiene
Patient care
Patient Safety
Patient safety culture
Practice
Quality management
Quality of Health Care
Quality standards
Questionnaires
Reproducibility of Results
Republic of Korea
Safety Management
Statistical analysis
Statistical significance
Surveys and Questionnaires
Variance analysis
Work environment
Workloads
Workplace
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Summary:Patient safety culture is a core factor in increasing patient safety, is related to the quality of medical service, and can lower the risk of patient safety accidents. However, in dentistry, research has previously focused mostly on reporting of patient safety accidents. Dental professionals' patient safety culture must therefore first be assessed, and related factors analyzed to improve patient safety. This cross-sectional study completed a survey on 377 dental hygienists working in dental settings. To assess patient safety culture, we used a survey with proven validity and reliability by translating the Hospital Survey on Patient Safety Culture (HSOPS) developed by Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) into Korean. Response options on all of the items were on 5-point Likert-type scales. SPSS v21 was used for statistical analysis. The relationships between workplace factors and patient safety culture were examined using t-tests and one-way analysis of variance (ANOVA) tests(p 
ISSN:1472-6963
1472-6963
DOI:10.1186/s12913-019-4136-8