Patient Safety Culture in Austrian Hosp...

Adverse events in the healthcare system often have severe consequences for the patient and healthcare institutions (Vincent & Amalberti,2016). Thus, various risk management tools, such as critical incident reporting systems (CIRS) or operation checklists, have been recently introduced to 11 Austrian hospitals to increase patient safety. However, our study shows that these instruments were not everywhere equally effective. The effective implementation of these tools requires change management in the background to develop a lively patient safety culture.