Organizational and safety culture in Canadian intensive care units: relationship to size of intensive care unit and physician management model.

Peter Dodek; Hubert Wong; Danny Jaswal; Daren K. Heyland; Deborah J. Cook; Graeme M. Rocker; Demetrios J. Kutsogiannis; Craig Dale; Robert A. Fowler; Najib Ayas

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Organizational and safety culture in Canadian intensive care units: relationship to size of intensive care unit and physician management model.

April 25, 2012

Dodek P, Wong H, Jaswal D, et al. J Crit Care. 2012;27(1):11-7.

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This survey of Canadian intensive care units found that larger units and units directed by full-time intensivists had more positive safety culture scores.

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