Promoting Safer Culture

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STRATEGIES FOR PROMOTING SAFER CULTURE

 

 

 

The Tools section of this roadmap includes measures, interventions and resources for improving patient Safer Culture.

• Measures are surveys, developed and validated, to assess Safer Culture within healthcare or

aspects of Safer Culture that are within our conceptual framework

• Interventions are specific actions taken within healthcare to improve Safer Culture
• In addition, the full Safer Culture whitepaper includes resources that may be helpful. These additional resources are listed for each individual measure and intervention.

We used a four-prong approach to identify these Safer Culture measures, interventions, and resources, and organized them according to the model:

1. Reviewed the literature for measures of Safer Culture
2. Reviewed the literature for interventions used to improve Safer Culture
3. Conducted web-based search of patient safety tools and roadmaps
4. Explored practical tools used in a large academic healthcare system to improve patient Safer Culture

We further categorized the interventions to provide users with information about the level of testing and evidence behind each intervention.

• Evidenced-based intervention tools are those we found in our literature search which have studied and shown to improve Safer Culture
• Consensus-based intervention tools developed through consensus by a panel of experts as important but may or may not have been rigorously tested in perinatal patients
• Practical but untested intervention tools are those have been used within our organization but not tested using Safer Culture as a measure