Does Hospital’s ‘Safety Culture’ Keep Patients Safe?

By GSN Staff

If you work in a hospital these days, you’ve probably gotten the invitation: Take a survey about how well you, your team and your hospital do at protecting patients from harm, and how empowered you feel to do the right thing. It's all in the name of gauging “patient safety culture.”

But a new study questions whether such surveys actually measure how well a hospital is doing at keeping patients safe. A team of researchers based mainly at the University of Michigan