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Seeing risk and allocating responsibility: talk of culture and its consequences on the work of patient safety.

Szymczak JE. Seeing risk and allocating responsibility: talk of culture and its consequences on the work of patient safety. Soc Sci Med. 2014;120:252-9. doi:10.1016/j.socscimed.2014.09.023.

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April 24, 2017
Szymczak JE. Soc Sci Med. 2014;120:252-9.
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This ethnographic study describes how health care workers use patient safety culture to describe individual behaviors rather than social norms. The author contends that making reference to changing safety culture impedes implementation of some safety practices and places the onus for patient safety disproportionately on frontline staff, underscoring the challenges of measuring and addressing safety culture.

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Szymczak JE. Seeing risk and allocating responsibility: talk of culture and its consequences on the work of patient safety. Soc Sci Med. 2014;120:252-9. doi:10.1016/j.socscimed.2014.09.023.

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