What constitutes patient safety culture in Chinese hospitals?

International Journal for Quality in Health Care

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 250-257

  Zhu, Junya ^a,b,c   Li, Liping ^c   Li, Yuxia ^c   Shi, Meiyu ^c   Lu, Haiying ^c   Garnick, Deborah W ^b   Weingart, Saul N ^a,d  

^a DANA FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c SHANGHAI UNIVERSITY OF TRADITIONAL CHINESE MEDICINE   (China)

^d HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

China; Focus groups; Hospital; Patient safety; Quality culture

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHINESE; CITY; COGNITION; CULTURAL FACTOR; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH SURVEY; HOSPITAL; HOSPITAL PERSONNEL; HUMAN; LEADERSHIP; MALE; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MEDICAL INFORMATION; MEDICAL INSTRUMENTATION; NORMAL HUMAN; NURSE; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT SAFETY; PERCEPTION; PHYSICIAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; SEMANTICS; TEACHER; TRAINING;

ADULT; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; CHINA; DATA COLLECTION; FEMALE; FOCUS GROUPS; HEALTH PERSONNEL; HOSPITALS; HUMANS; JAPAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT SAFETY; QUESTIONNAIRES; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84861557359     PISSN: 13534505     EISSN: 14643677     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/intqhc/mzs010     Document Type: Article

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