Patient safety culture - Primary healthcare

The present scientific monograph is situated within the contemporary paradigm of understanding patient safety. It focuses on primary health care, a field that has often been overlooked in research on safety culture compared with the hospital setting, despite the fact that the majority of health-care encounters take place at the primary level. The authors of the monograph address this research and professional challenge systematically, with methodological rigour and a clear aim to contribute to a deeper understanding of how employees in various forms of primary health-care provision perceive safety culture.

This monograph is therefore essential reading for all those working in primary health care—from health-care professionals and managers of health-care institutions to researchers, students, and health-policy makers. Its insights are timely, its findings applicable, and its fundamental contribution lies in the fact that it treats patient-safety culture not as an abstract concept but as a living process that is reflected daily in primary health-care practice.