ArticleBMC health services research2017
Patient safety culture in care homes for older people: a scoping review.
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29 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Systematic review of types of safety incidents and the processes and systems used for safety incident reporting in care homes.Journal of advanced nursing · 2025Pooled it
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- Nursing home performance in a trial to reduce hospitalizations: Implications for future trials.Journal of the American Geriatrics Society · 2021Trial
- Healthcare workers' perceptions of patient safety culture in emergency departments: a scoping review.BMJ open · 2025Article
- Measurement properties of the polish version of the nursing home survey on patient safety culture.BMC nursing · 2025Article
- Enhancing Safety Culture for Formal Caregivers in Long-Term Care: A Rapid Review.Journal of nursing management · 2025Review
- Evaluating a caregiver-focused safety culture model: Effects on caregivers' safety perception, older adults' quality of life, and the incidence of adverse events in Indonesia.Belitung nursing journal · 2025Article
- Emergency department's patient safety culture perceived by healthcare workers: A scoping review protocol.PloS one · 2025Article
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- Interventions to enhance safety culture for nursing professionals in long-term care: A systematic review.International journal of nursing studies advances · 2023Review
- Teamwork and safety climate in Polish long-term care facilities: questionnaire reliability and usability.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- Implications of Aging in Place in the Context of the Residential Environment: Bibliometric Analysis and Literature Review.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2023Review
- Patient Safety Subcultures among Nursing Home Staff in Italy: A Cross-Sectional Study.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Cultures of aged care delivery: Qualitative content analysis of Australia's Royal Commission into Aged Care Quality and Safety.Australasian journal on ageing · 2023Article
- Making Neglect Invisible: A Qualitative Study among Nursing Home Staff in Norway.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Safe Medication in Nursing Home Residents Through the Development and Evaluation of an Intervention (SAME): Protocol for a Fully Integrated Mixed Methods Study With a Cocreative Approach.JMIR research protocols · 2023Article
- Patient Safety Culture in Assisted Living: Staff Perceptions and Association with State Regulations.Journal of the American Medical Directors Association · 2022Article
- Predictors of patient safety activities among registered nurses and nurse aides in long-term care facilities: cross-sectional study.BMC geriatrics · 2022Article
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Abstract
backgroundIn recent years, there has been an increasing focus on the role of safety culture in preventing incidents such as medication errors and falls. However, research and developments in safety culture has predominantly taken place in hospital settings, with relatively less attention given to establishing a safety culture in care homes. Despite safety culture being accepted as an important quality indicator across all health and social care settings, the understanding of culture within social care settings remains far less developed than within hospitals. It is therefore important that the existing evidence base is gathered and reviewed in order to understand safety culture in care homes.
methodsA scoping review was undertaken to describe the availability of evidence related to care homes' patient safety culture, what these studies focused on, and identify any knowledge gaps within the existing literature. Included papers were each reviewed by two authors for eligibility and to draw out information relevant to the scoping review.
resultsTwenty-four empirical papers and one literature review were included within the scoping review. The collective evidence demonstrated that safety culture research is largely based in the USA, within Nursing Homes rather than Residential Home settings. Moreover, the scoping review revealed that empirical evidence has predominantly used quantitative measures, and therefore the deeper levels of culture have not been captured in the evidence base.
conclusionsSafety culture in care homes is a topic that has not been extensively researched. The review highlights a number of key gaps in the evidence base, which future research into safety culture in care home should attempt to address.
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