The relationship between organizational leadership for safety and learning from patient safety events

Health Services Research

Volumn 45, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 607-632

  Ginsburg, Liane R ^a   Chuang, You Ta ^b   Blair Berta, Whitney ^c   Norton, Peter G ^d   Ng, Peggy ^b   Tregunno, Deborah ^a   Richardson, Julia ^b  

^a York University   (Canada)

^b YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Leadership; Learning from safety events incidents; Patient safety; Safety culture

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HOSPITAL BED CAPACITY; HUMAN; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; LEADERSHIP; LEARNING; MEDICAL RESEARCH; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT SAFETY; PROFESSIONALISM; QUESTIONNAIRE;

CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICERS, HOSPITAL; COMMUNICATION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FACTOR ANALYSIS, STATISTICAL; HEALTH FACILITY SIZE; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HOSPITAL BED CAPACITY; HOSPITALS, GENERAL; HUMANS; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; LEADERSHIP; LEARNING; MEDICAL ERRORS; MODELS, ORGANIZATIONAL; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; ONTARIO; ORGANIZATIONAL CULTURE; QUESTIONNAIRES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SAFETY MANAGEMENT; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT;

EID: 77951921248     PISSN: 00179124     EISSN: 14756773     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1475-6773.2010.01102.x     Document Type: Article

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