Surgical residents' perceptions of patient safety climate in Dutch teaching hospitals.

Rationale, Aims And Objectives: Explicit attention to patient safety during surgical training is needed to improve patient safety. A positive safety climate is associated with greater patient safety and is a requisite for safety teaching at the workplace. The Safety Climate Survey (SCS) measures perceptions of safety climate.

Assessing the patient safety competencies of healthcare professionals: a systematic review.

Background Patient safety training of healthcare professionals is a new area of education. Assessment of the pertinent competencies should be a part of this education. This review aims to identify the available assessment tools for different patient safety domains and evaluate them according to Miller's four competency levels.

Possible solutions for barriers in incident reporting by residents.

Rationale, Aims And Objectives: Incident reporting can contribute to safer health care. Since the rate of reporting by residents is low, it is useful to investigate which barriers exist and how these can be solved.

Methods: Data were collected in a large teaching hospital in the Netherlands.