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Safety climate perceived by pre-hospital emergency care personnel—an international cross-sectional study
INTRODUCTION: Improving patient safety is one of the most critical components of modern healthcare. Emergency medical services (EMS) are, by nature, a challenging environment for ensuring patient safety. It is fast-paced, physically dangerous, and highly stressful, requiring rapid decision-making an...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10390026/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37529436 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2023.1192315 |
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author | Kosydar-Bochenek, Justyna Religa, Dorota Knap, Małgorzata Czop, Marcin Knap, Bartosz Mędrzycka-Dąbrowska, Wioletta Krupa, Sabina |
author_facet | Kosydar-Bochenek, Justyna Religa, Dorota Knap, Małgorzata Czop, Marcin Knap, Bartosz Mędrzycka-Dąbrowska, Wioletta Krupa, Sabina |
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description | INTRODUCTION: Improving patient safety is one of the most critical components of modern healthcare. Emergency medical services (EMS) are, by nature, a challenging environment for ensuring patient safety. It is fast-paced, physically dangerous, and highly stressful, requiring rapid decision-making and action. This can create risks not only for patients but also for employees. We assessed variations in perceptions of safety culture in prehospital emergency care among an international sample of paramedics and nurses. METHODS: The Emergency Medical Services Safety Attitudes Questionnaire (EMS-SAQ) was used for the study. The instrument measures six domains of safety culture in the workplace: teamwork climate, job satisfaction, safety climate, working conditions, stress recognition, and perceptions of management. A total of 1,128 EMS from 9 countries participated in this study. RESULTS: Safety Climate was 81.32/100 (SD 6.90), Teamwork Climate 84.14/100 (SD 8.74), Perceptions of Management 76.30/100 (SD 10.54), Stress Recognition 89.86/100 (SD 5.70), Working Conditions 81.07/100 (SD 9.75), and Job Satisfaction 70.71/100 (SD 7.21). There was significant variation in safety culture scores across countries for teamwork climate (TWC), working conditions (WC), and job satisfaction (JS). Among the individual variables (age, gender, level of education, and work experience), variations in safety culture scores were unaffected by age, gender, or work experience. Organizational characteristics: employment status and position type were linked to significant variations in safety culture domain scores. CONCLUSION: Participants’ perceptions of the patient safety climate were not particularly satisfactory, confirming that there is still a need to develop a culture of patient safety in prehospital emergency care. |
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spelling | pubmed-103900262023-08-01 Safety climate perceived by pre-hospital emergency care personnel—an international cross-sectional study Kosydar-Bochenek, Justyna Religa, Dorota Knap, Małgorzata Czop, Marcin Knap, Bartosz Mędrzycka-Dąbrowska, Wioletta Krupa, Sabina Front Public Health Public Health INTRODUCTION: Improving patient safety is one of the most critical components of modern healthcare. Emergency medical services (EMS) are, by nature, a challenging environment for ensuring patient safety. It is fast-paced, physically dangerous, and highly stressful, requiring rapid decision-making and action. This can create risks not only for patients but also for employees. We assessed variations in perceptions of safety culture in prehospital emergency care among an international sample of paramedics and nurses. METHODS: The Emergency Medical Services Safety Attitudes Questionnaire (EMS-SAQ) was used for the study. The instrument measures six domains of safety culture in the workplace: teamwork climate, job satisfaction, safety climate, working conditions, stress recognition, and perceptions of management. A total of 1,128 EMS from 9 countries participated in this study. RESULTS: Safety Climate was 81.32/100 (SD 6.90), Teamwork Climate 84.14/100 (SD 8.74), Perceptions of Management 76.30/100 (SD 10.54), Stress Recognition 89.86/100 (SD 5.70), Working Conditions 81.07/100 (SD 9.75), and Job Satisfaction 70.71/100 (SD 7.21). There was significant variation in safety culture scores across countries for teamwork climate (TWC), working conditions (WC), and job satisfaction (JS). Among the individual variables (age, gender, level of education, and work experience), variations in safety culture scores were unaffected by age, gender, or work experience. Organizational characteristics: employment status and position type were linked to significant variations in safety culture domain scores. CONCLUSION: Participants’ perceptions of the patient safety climate were not particularly satisfactory, confirming that there is still a need to develop a culture of patient safety in prehospital emergency care. Frontiers Media S.A. 2023-07-17 /pmc/articles/PMC10390026/ /pubmed/37529436 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2023.1192315 Text en Copyright © 2023 Kosydar-Bochenek, Religa, Knap, Czop, Knap, Mędrzycka-Dąbrowska and Krupa. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms. |
spellingShingle | Public Health Kosydar-Bochenek, Justyna Religa, Dorota Knap, Małgorzata Czop, Marcin Knap, Bartosz Mędrzycka-Dąbrowska, Wioletta Krupa, Sabina Safety climate perceived by pre-hospital emergency care personnel—an international cross-sectional study |
title | Safety climate perceived by pre-hospital emergency care personnel—an international cross-sectional study |
title_full | Safety climate perceived by pre-hospital emergency care personnel—an international cross-sectional study |
title_fullStr | Safety climate perceived by pre-hospital emergency care personnel—an international cross-sectional study |
title_full_unstemmed | Safety climate perceived by pre-hospital emergency care personnel—an international cross-sectional study |
title_short | Safety climate perceived by pre-hospital emergency care personnel—an international cross-sectional study |
title_sort | safety climate perceived by pre-hospital emergency care personnel—an international cross-sectional study |
topic | Public Health |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10390026/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37529436 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2023.1192315 |
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