The correlation between patient safety culture and regional anesthesia development

Background and purpose: Through the development of security systems, improvement of knowledge and skills, and cooperation with other professions anesthesiologists have become leaders in improving patient safety and creators of a positive culture of patient safety among health professionals in the developing countries. Taking the significant progress made in regional anesthesia in Croatia as an indicator of the aforementioned role that anesthesiologists play within the health care system of transitional societies such as Croatian, research was carried out with the purpose of detecting differences in patient safety culture among anesthesiology, surgical and non-surgical staff in a sample of Croatian hospitals. Material and methods: The research covered 560 health professionals in three general hospitals in Croatia who anonymously and voluntarily filled in the Croatian version of the Hospital Survey on Patient Safety Culture (HSOPSC). One-way analysis of variance and multipleposthoctestaccordingtoBonferroniwerecarriedoutinorder to test statistical differences in 12 dimensions of patient safety culture between surgical, non-surgical and anesthesiology staff.