Patient safety climate in a hospital specialized in oncology

Abstract

The study’s objective was to assess the safety climate from the perspective of a health team from a hospital specialized in oncology. An observational sectional study, conducted with 66 health professionals, using the Safety Attitudes Questionnaire. For analysis, Student’s t test and Sperman’s correlation (?=0.05) were used. The instrument’s general score was 70.28. The domain with best score was satisfaction at work (86.74) and, the domains with lower scores were perception from management (64.99) and stress perception (61.74). There was no differences of means statistically significant between genders, but it was present between those who had gone through graduate school or not. There was no correlation between scores and career time in the specialty at the institution. The final assessment demonstrated fragilities in the perception of health professionals related to questions involving the institutional climate of safety.