Patient Safety Culture Survey of a University Hospital Staff, 2016-2017

Géssica Caroline Henrique Fontes-Mota from Universidade de São Paulo conducted a cross-sectional survey on patient safety culture among hospital staff from December 2016 to May 2017. The dataset contains 368 valid responses from 413 distributed questionnaires, yielding an 89% response rate and an overall positive response percentage of 50.3%. It evaluates safety culture dimensions, identifying strong and weak areas within a medium-complexity university hospital.

Use Cases

• Benchmarking safety culture dimensions like 'Supervisor/manager expectations' based on percentage of positive responses.
• Analyzing the correlation between event reporting rates and perceived safety quality based on the 70.6% non-reporting rate.
• Identifying institutional gaps in safety culture, such as the 'Nonpunitive response to error' dimension which had only 22.9% positive responses.

Strengths

• High response rate of 89% from the distributed questionnaires.
• Specific temporal coverage from December 2016 to May 2017.
• Includes calculated percentage metrics for multiple safety culture dimensions.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Data is from a single institution, which may limit generalizability.
• Row count for the underlying raw data is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.

Provenance

Source

Universidade de São Paulo

Collection Method

Cross-sectional survey using the Portuguese version of the Hospital Survey on Patient Safety Culture.

Time Range

December 2016 to May 2017

Geography

Likely Brazil (inferred from author's affiliation and use of Portuguese survey tool)