Introduction

Patient safety is defined as an integrated pattern of individual and organizational behavior based on shared beliefs and values that continuously seeks to minimize harm to patients.

Objective

To analyze the correlation between the perception of patient safety culture and the degree of safety perceived by healthcare workers in a tertiary hospital in 2015, 2017 and 2019.

Materials and Methods

A quantitative correlational study was conducted with a purposive sample of 402 records obtained from a patient safety culture database. The Hospital Survey on Patient Safety Culture was used for assessment.

Results

The global results show that the highest percentage of respondents corresponded to healthcare workers (73.4%). The main healthcare service provided is the intensive care unit (18.2%) in which most participants were nurses (45.7%). According to positive responses received for global data, 2 out of the 12 dimensions are classified as strengths in the Organizational Learning (81.5%) and Teamwork (85.5%) components, as well as the degree of safety perceived through correlations (p: 0.000) is found in five dimensions such as event notifications and organizational learning, among others.

Discussion

The correlation between the perceived degree of safety and survey dimensions shows similarity, especially for event notifications.

Conclusion

Patient safety and the perceived degree of safety are correlated as institutional interventions are made for different components, including organizational learning and teamwork.

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