Patient Safety Culture Assessment Profile in Hospitals - Systematic Review

Sergio Luiz Carlos Dos Santos^1*, Vera Moreira de Andrade, L. A.² & Nuria Rodriguez Avila³

¹Department of Sport Sciences, Federal University of Parana, Brazil
²PhD Student in Nursing and Health at the University of Barcelona, Professor at the School of Public Health, Curitiba, Paraná
³Professor at the Post Graduation in Sociology and Health and Foreign Relations Vececana, University of Barcelona, Spain

Dr. Sergio Luiz Carlos Dos Santos, Department of Sport Sciences, Federal University of Parana, Brazil.

Keywords: Patient; Safety; Culture; Athlete’s Knee Surgery

Abstract

The article presents systematic review of the health care environment, with emphasis on the profile of culture in hospitals. The method was searched in the databases PubMed, Embase and Scholar. Using the keywords assessment (and) culture of patient safety (and), hospitals, Judo athlete’s knee surgery, selecting publications between 2006 and 2015 and did not address reviews. Including only dealing with results with various professional categories under hospital safety culture. The languages for the articles were: English, Spanish and Portuguese. From this methodology it was possible to elect a total of 167 articles, 14 of which were chosen for the study, which resulted that the majority found a safety profile in the hospitals are influenced by the local culture tending mostly to positive. The limitations go through the lack of neutrality in the analysis even working in pairs and staff and research recommendations.

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