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  • Bricks-and-mortar and patient safety culture

    Author(s)
    Brandis, Susan
    Schleimer, Stephanie
    Rice, John
    Griffith University Author(s)
    Schleimer, Stephanie C.
    Brandis, Susan
    Year published
    2017
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    Abstract
    Purpose: Building a new hospital requires a major investment in capital infrastructure. The purpose of this paper is to investigate the impact of bricks-and-mortar on patient safety culture before and two years after the move of a large tertiary hospital to a greenfield site. The difference in patient safety perceptions between clinical and non-clinical staff is also explored. Design/methodology/approach: This research uses data collected from the same workforce across two time periods (2013 and 2015) in a large Australian healthcare service. Validated surveys of patient safety culture (n=306 and 246) were analysed using ...
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    Purpose: Building a new hospital requires a major investment in capital infrastructure. The purpose of this paper is to investigate the impact of bricks-and-mortar on patient safety culture before and two years after the move of a large tertiary hospital to a greenfield site. The difference in patient safety perceptions between clinical and non-clinical staff is also explored. Design/methodology/approach: This research uses data collected from the same workforce across two time periods (2013 and 2015) in a large Australian healthcare service. Validated surveys of patient safety culture (n=306 and 246) were analysed using descriptive and inferential statistics. Findings: Using two-way analysis of variance, the authors found that perceived patient safety culture remains unchanged for staff despite a major relocation and upgrade of services and different perceptions of patient safety culture between staff groups remains the same throughout change. Practical implications: A dramatic change in physical context, such as moving an entire hospital, made no measurable impact on perceived patient safety culture by major groups of staff. Improving patient safety culture requires more than investment in buildings and infrastructure. Understanding differences in professional perspectives of patient safety culture may inform organisational management approaches, and enhance the targeting of specific strategies. Originality/value: The authors believe this to be the first empirically based paper that investigates the impact of a large investment into hospital capital and a subsequent relocation of services on clinical and non-clinical staff perceptions of patient safety culture.
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    Journal Title
    Journal of Health Organization and Management
    Volume
    31
    Issue
    4
    DOI
    https://doi.org/10.1108/JHOM-04-2017-0072
    Subject
    Business and Management not elsewhere classified
    Medical and Health Sciences
    Commerce, Management, Tourism and Services
    Publication URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/10072/352776
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