Study: Patient Safety Culture Linked to Employee Engagement, Workers’ Comp Claims

Higher employee engagement and fewer workers’ compensation claims are linked to an improved patient safety culture, according to a study in Journal of Patient Safety.

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Researchers administered the Gallup Q-12 survey, which measures employee engagement, and a subset of questions of the Hospital Survey on Patient Safety Culture to staff at a large tertiary academic medical center in 2007 and 2009.

Click here to read the full story on patient safety culture in Becker’s Hospital Review.

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