Why should a hospital conduct a safety culture survey?
Safety culture surveys are useful for measuring organizational conditions that can lead to adverse events and patient harm in healthcare organizations. Organizations that want to assess their existing culture of patient safety should consider conducting a safety culture survey. Safety culture surveys can be used to: • Raise awareness about patient safety issues. • Fulfill directives or regulatory requirements. • Diagnose the current status of safety culture. • Evaluate specific patient safety interventions or programs. • Conduct internal and external benchmarking. • Track change over time.
