A scoping review:

Patient safety implications and outcomes within organisation where a strong or weak patient safety culture exist.

Aim

What are the patient safety implications and outcomes within organization where a strong or weak patient safety culture exists?

Objectives

  1. To undertake a literature review that considers policy, research and the grey literature in relation to patient safety culture and its implications for healthcare organisations.
  2. To critically review what are the characteristics of an organizations with good patient safety culture and poor patient safety culture.
  3. What are the factors that drives and hinders the implementation of a good patient safety culture?