title: [Safety culture assessment in a university pulmonary medicine department].
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Improvement in treatment safety is a major issue in Western healthcare systems, with the aim of reducing the number of treatment associated undesirable events. The safety culture, defined as an integrated and coherent collection of individual and organizational behavior that seeks continuously to reduce harm to patients, possibly related to treatment, could fulfill this aim.
  
  
  METHODS
  We have used an adaption of the American "Hospital Survey on Patient Safety" questionnaire (HSOPSC), which examines professionals' perception of treatment safety, to assess the safety culture in our respiratory medicine service in the Strasbourg University Hospital.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Of the 110 questionnaires distributed to the service personnel, 93 were returned (85 %). The level of treatment safety was judged "acceptable" for 56 % of the personnel, "very good" for 32 %, against "weak" or "failing" for 10 %. Of the 10 dimensions explored, 8 were considered to need improvement and 2 had a level of positive responses greater than 50 %.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Treatment safety culture seems to be an area to develop in our service. A strong safety culture should allow health care professionals to adhere better to treatment safety mechanisms.
authors.affiliation: Service de pneumologie, nouvel hôpital civil, hôpitaux universitaire de Strasbourg, 1, place de l'hôpital, 67000 Strasbourg, France. Electronic address: leduc.cha@gmail.com.
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Leduc
authors.affiliation: Service de pneumologie, nouvel hôpital civil, hôpitaux universitaire de Strasbourg, 1, place de l'hôpital, 67000 Strasbourg, France.
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: De Blay
authors.affiliation: Service de pneumologie, nouvel hôpital civil, hôpitaux universitaire de Strasbourg, 1, place de l'hôpital, 67000 Strasbourg, France.
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Kessler
authors.affiliation: Service de pneumologie, nouvel hôpital civil, hôpitaux universitaire de Strasbourg, 1, place de l'hôpital, 67000 Strasbourg, France.
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Quoix
authors.affiliation: Service de réanimation médicale, centre hospitalier de Mulhouse, 20, avenue du Docteur-René-Laennec, 68100 Mulhouse, France.
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Kuteifan
mesh_terms: D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D002983:Clinical Competence / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D006282:Health Personnel / Q000458:organization & administration / Q000592:standards; D006785:Hospitals, University / Q000458:organization & administration / Q000592:standards; D006801:Humans; D019300:Medical Errors / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D061214:Patient Safety / Q000592:standards*; D010465:Perception; D015272:Pulmonary Medicine / Q000458:organization & administration / Q000592:standards*; D017751:Safety Management / Q000458:organization & administration / Q000592:standards; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires
keywords: Culture de sécurité; Safety culture; Safety of treatment; Sécurité des soins; Undesirable events related to treatment; Évènements indésirables liés aux soins