International journal for quality in health care : journal of the International Society for Quality in Health Care
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Int J Qual Health Care · Nov 2018
Speaking up behaviors and safety climate in an Austrian university hospital.
To analyze speaking up behavior and safety climate with a validated questionnaire for the first time in an Austrian university hospital. ⋯ We identified speaking up behaviors for the first time in an Austrian university hospital. Only moderately frequent concerns were in conflict with frequent speaking up behaviors. These results clearly show that a paradigm shift is needed to increase speaking up culture.