A Study On Surgical Safety Culture Among Health Care Professionals in a Tertiary Care Hospital of Bihar

Abstract

Background: This is an era of health care revolution and is witnessing a radical and paradigm shift in health care quality and services. Each passing day we see newer and more aggressive treatment modalities being offered to ever increasing population.Aim & objective: was to study attitude of health care professionals towards surgical safety culture. Material & Methods: This was a cross sectional descriptive study using safety culture survey questionnaire. A total of 200 nurses and physicians returned the questionnaire out of 232 achieving a response rate of 86.2%. Nurses and physicians were randomly selected using a proportionate random sampling. Data analysis performed using SPS software. Results: The study results showed male to female ratio was 1.6:1, and the mean age was 31.1 +/- 4 years. The mean score of safety culture survey was 3.9 and SD was 0.45. The percentage of respondents holding a positive attitude was 99 % overall. Conclusion: The study concluded that overall safety culture was good and further studies involving other specialties and centres are needed.