Repeat trainings may be needed to sustain patient safety interventions

Patient-safety education programs can improve the patient-safety culture of health care professionals, but repeated trainings may be needed to sustain the interventions, a study found. Published in the February issue of Nursing Education and Practice, the systematic review included 16 studies of patient safety culture education programs using before and after surveys of intervention and control groups. Participants generally found the trainings to be positive. A culture of blame remained a persistent problem, in spite of improvements in other components of patient safety culture in many hospitals. (AHRQ Patient Safety Network article, 3/29/23)