Culture of Safety
Culture of Safety
There is growing evidence that the role of culture, especially the culture of patient safety, pays in an organization’s ability to not only improve, but also sustain those improvements over time. This section will provide strategies and resources to assist hospitals and clinical units in enhancing the culture of safety.
Best Practices and Events Affecting Cesarean Delivery Rates in California
One of every eight babies born in the United States is born in
California. Of those births, three in 10 are delivered by
cesarean. Many California hospitals, big and small, have
instituted processes to maintain low cesarean delivery
rates. To understand the practices of rural and
community hospitals that have maintained a low
cesarean delivery rate, the Hospital Quality Institute
(HQI) received a grant from CHCF to study these California
birthing hospitals and their processes in a project
titled, Promoting Optimal NTSV Delivery Rates (PONDR).
Transforming Health Care Scheduling and Access: Getting to Now
Institute of Medicine
The Institute of Medicine (IOM) released a report identifying “six fundamental aims for health care that it be:
Hospital Survey on Patient Safety Culture
AHRQ
In 2004, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) released the Hospital Survey on Patient Safety Culture, a staff survey designed to help hospitals assess the culture of safety in their institutions. Since then, hundreds of hospitals across the U.S. and internationally have implemented the survey.
What Can Doctors Learn by Admitting Their Mistakes?
TED Radio Hour on NPR
Every doctor makes mistakes, but Brian Goldman, M.D., says medicine’s culture of denial keeps doctors from talking about and learning from those mistakes. Dr. Goldman calls on doctors to start talking about being wrong.