Preliminary Comparative Results and Analyses From the Medical Office Survey on Patient Safety Culture

Staff Position

Overall, management and physicians had more positive patient safety culture scores than other staff, except on:

• Patient safety and quality issues.
• Information exchange with other settings, and
• Patient care tracking/followup.

Office Size

Smaller medical offices had slightly more positive patient safety culture scores than larger medical offices.

Ownership

Physician/provider-owned offices:

• Had more positive patient safety culture scores than hospital/health-system owned offices and university/academic offices.

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