The safety culture of the Ljubljana community health centre’s employees

Variable	n (%)
Gender
male	112 (11.0)
female	909 (89.0)
Medical office position
Physician, dentist	277 (27.2)
Healthcare assistants	211 (20.7)
Management	34 (3.3)
Administrative or clerical staff	45 (4.4)
Registered nurse	295 (28.9)
Other clinical staff or clinical support staff^a	127 (12.5)
Other position	31 (14.1)
Community Health Centre Ljubljana unit
Center	209 (20.5)
Moste-Polje	222 (21.7)
Management	37 (3.6)
Šentvid	47 (3.6)
Vič-Rudnik	195 (19.1)
Bežigrad	129 (12.6)
Unit SNMP	38 (3.7)
Šiška	144 (14.1)

[i] ^a – e.g. clinical psychologist, radiological engineer, etc.

Table 2

Associations between patient safety culture and the characteristics of respondents.

		gender	age	unit	time	lenght	servis	position
A	Patient safety and	t=-2.173	ns	F=2.607	F=3.697	F=3.104	ns	ns
	quality of treatment	p=0.030		p=0.011	p=0.005	p=0.026
B	Exchange	ns	ns	F=5.540	ns	Ns	ns	ns
	of information			p<0.001
C1	Teamwork	ns	ns	F=3.243	ns	F=7.592	F=7.302	F=3.345
				p=0.002		p<0.001	p<0.001	p=0.010
C2	Work pressure	ns	F=5.193	F=9.109	ns	Ns	F=8.614	F=18.299
	and pace		p=0.001	p<0.001			p<0.001	p<0.001
C3	Staff training	ns	F=6.350	F=4.180	ns	F=3.592	F=7.036	ns
			p=0.000	p<0.001		p=0.006	p<0.001
C4	Office processes and	ns	ns	F=6.722	ns	Ns	F=3.872	F=9.541
	standardization			p<0.001			p=0.009	p<0.001
D1	Communication	ns	ns	F=2.799	ns	F=5.285	F=3.229	F=10.297
	openness			p=0.007		p<0.001	p=0.022	p<0.001
D2	Patient Care Tracking/	ns	ns	F=3.712	ns	Ns	ns	ns
	Follow-up			p=0.001
D3	Communication	ns	ns	ns	ns	F=3.473	ns	F=3.428
	about Errors					p=0.008		p=0.009
E	Leadership support	ns	F=9.113	F=2.604;	ns	F=2.401;	F=8.781;	F=6.690
	for patients’ safety		p<0.001	p=0.012		p=0.048	p<0.001	p<0.001
G1	Overall ratings	ns	ns	ns	F=4.229	Ns	ns	F=4.037
	on quality				p=0.001			p=0.003

[i] Legend: ns - non-significant; Unit - Ljubljana Community Health Centre unit; Time - number of on-site working hours per week; Length - length of time working at the current working position; Service: years of service; Position: Medical office position

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/sjph-2021-0021 | Journal eISSN: 1854-2476 | Journal ISSN: 0351-0026

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Language: English, Slovenian

Page range: 145 - 151

Submitted on: Dec 21, 2020

Accepted on: May 18, 2021

Published on: Jun 28, 2021

Published by: National Institute of Public Health, Slovenia

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