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| Sara SingerSummaryAffiliation: Harvard University Country: USA Publications
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Development and preliminary validation of the Patient Perceptions of Integrated Care surveySara J Singer
Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Med Care Res Rev 70:143-64. 2013....- Reducing hospital errors: interventions that build safety cultureSara J Singer
Department of Health Policy and Management, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
Annu Rev Public Health 34:373-96. 2013..Instead, reducing errors requires systemic interventions that address the interrelated processes of safety culture in a balanced manner... 
An exploration of safety climate in nursing homesSara Singer
Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA
J Patient Saf 8:104-24. 2012..Our study assessed differences in attitudes about safety among nursing home personnel and piloted a new survey, specifically designed for the nursing home context...- Development of a short-form Learning Organization Survey: the LOS-27Sara J Singer
Department of Health Policy and Management, Harvard School of Public Health, and Massachusetts General Hospital, Mongan Institute for Health Policy, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Med Care Res Rev 69:432-59. 2012.... - A case for safety leadership team training of hospital managersSara J Singer
Harvard School of Public Health and Harvard Medical School Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Health Care Manage Rev 36:188-200. 2011..Despite the need for such training, few programs teach multidisciplinary groups of managers about specific behaviors that can enhance their role as leadership teams in the realm of patient safety... - Defining and measuring integrated patient care: promoting the next frontier in health care deliverySara J Singer
Department of Health Policy and Management, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Med Care Res Rev 68:112-27. 2011.... - Comparing safety climate in naval aviation and hospitals: implications for improving patient safetySara J Singer
Department of Health Policy and Management, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, USA
Health Care Manage Rev 35:134-46. 2010..However, comparisons only among hospitals may underestimate the improvement required. Comparison of hospitals with analogous industries may provide a broader perspective on the safety status of our nation's hospitals... - Identifying organizational cultures that promote patient safetySara J Singer
Health Care Management and Policy, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA
Health Care Manage Rev 34:300-11. 2009.... 
Comparing safety climate between two populations of hospitals in the United StatesSara J Singer
Department of Health Policy and Management, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Health Serv Res 44:1563-83. 2009..To compare safety climate between diverse U.S. hospitals and Veterans Health Administration (VA) hospitals, and to explore the factors influencing climate in each setting...- Relationship of safety climate and safety performance in hospitalsSara Singer
Department of Health Policy and Management, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Health Serv Res 44:399-421. 2009..To examine the relationship between measures of hospital safety climate and hospital performance on selected Patient Safety Indicators (PSIs)... - Patient safety climate in 92 US hospitals: differences by work area and disciplineSara J Singer
Department of Health Policy and Management, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Med Care 47:23-31. 2009..A better understanding of how patient safety climate differs among distinct work areas and disciplines in hospitals would facilitate the design and implementation of interventions... - Patient safety climate in US hospitals: variation by management levelSara J Singer
Department of Health Policy and Management, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
Med Care 46:1149-56. 2008..Strengthening hospital safety culture offers promise for reducing adverse events, but efforts to improve culture may not succeed if hospital managers perceive safety differently from frontline workers... - Relationship of hospital organizational culture to patient safety climate in the Veterans Health AdministrationChristine W Hartmann
Center for Health Quality, Outcomes, and Economic Research, Bedford, MA, USA
Med Care Res Rev 66:320-38. 2009..Hospitals could use these results to design specific interventions aimed at improving safety climate... - Patient safety climate in hospitals: act locally on variation across unitsEric G Campbell
Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA
Jt Comm J Qual Patient Saf 36:319-26. 2010..A study was conducted to assess the extent and nature of variation in safety climate across units within an academic medical center... - Recruitment of hospitals for a safety climate study: facilitators and barriersAmy K Rosen
Center for Health Quality, Outcomes and Economic Research, Department of Veterans Affairs Center of Excellence, Bedford, MA, USA
Jt Comm J Qual Patient Saf 34:275-84. 2008..Factors affecting recruitment of 30 Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) hospitals into a study to evaluate perceptions of safety culture, or safety "climate," were examined... - Hospital safety climate and safety outcomes: is there a relationship in the VA?Amy K Rosen
VA Boston Healthcare System, MA, Boston University School of Public Health, MA, USA
Med Care Res Rev 67:590-608. 2010..Perceptions of frontline staff were more closely aligned with PSIs than those of senior managers... - Front-line staff perspectives on opportunities for improving the safety and efficiency of hospital work systemsAnita L Tucker
Harvard Business School, Morgan Hall 431, Soldiers Field, Boston, MA 02163, USA
Health Serv Res 43:1807-29. 2008..To contrast the safety-related concerns raised by front-line staff about hospital work systems (operational failures) with national patient safety initiatives... - An empirical assessment of boarding and quality of care: delays in care among chest pain, pneumonia, and cellulitis patientsShan W Liu
Department of Emergency Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA
Acad Emerg Med 18:1339-48. 2011..To the best of our knowledge, no study has compared the quality of care of boarded and nonboarded patients... - Safety culture: is the "unit" the right "unit of analysis"?David M Gaba
Crit Care Med 35:314-6. 2007 - Differences in safety climate between hospital personnel and naval aviatorsDavid M Gaba
Patient Safety Center of Inquiry, Veterans Affairs Palo Alto Health Care System, Palo Alto, California 94304, USA
Hum Factors 45:173-85. 2003..Although further research on safety climate in health care is warranted, hospitals may need to make substantial changes to achieve a safety climate consistent with the status of high-reliability organizations... - Improving patient safety by taking systems seriouslyStephen M Shortell
University of California-Berkeley School of Public Health, Division of Health Policy and Management, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
JAMA 299:445-7. 2008