• Mohamed Ayoub Tlili, Wiem Aouicha, Mohamed Ben Rejeb, Jihene Sahli, Mohamed Ben Dhiab, Souad Chelbi, Ali Mtiraoui, Houyem Said Laatiri, Thouraya Ajmi, Chekib Zedini, and Manel Mallouli.
• University of Sousse, Faculty of Medicine of Sousse, Tunisia; University of Sousse, Higher School of Health Sciences and Techniques of Sousse, Tunisia; Laboratory of research LR12ES03, Tunisia. Electronic address: medtlili@hotmail.fr.
• J Crit Care. 2020 Apr 1; 56: 208-214.

PurposeThis study aimed to assess patient safety culture (PSC) in intensive care units (ICUs) and to determine the factors affecting it.Materials And MethodsThis is a cross-sectional study, conducted from October to November 2017 among professionals practicing in the ICUs of the Tunisian center. After obtaining institutional ethics committee's approval and administrative authorizations, an anonymous paper-based questionnaire was distributed to the participants after obtaining their consent to take part in the study. The measuring instrument used is the French validated version of the "Hospital Survey on Patient Safety Culture" questionnaire.ResultsA total of 402 professionals, from 18 ICUs and 10 hospitals, participated in the study with a participation rate of 82.37%. All dimensions were to be improved. The most developed dimension was teamwork within the unit (47.87%) and the least developed dimension was the non-punitive response to error (18.6%). Seven dimensions were significantly more developed in private institutions than in public ones. Results also show that when workload is reduced, the PSC was significantly increased.ConclusionThis study has shown that the PSC in ICUs needs improvement and provided a baseline results to get a clearer vision of the aspects of security that require special attention.Copyright © 2020 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

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