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Gaba DM, Singer SJ, Sinaiko AD, Bowen JD, Ciavarelli AP. Differences in safety climate between hospital personnel and naval aviators. Human Factors: The Journal of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society. 2003;45(2):173

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Empirical study

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Staff - healthcare

Cultures - organisational

An interesting and disconcerting comparison of the safety climate between naval aviators and hospital staff - mostly consultants and managers but including other staff groups, and showing that the health care staff worked in environments and / or had attitudes to safety that were significantly more risky than those experienced by or manifest by aviators. This report is now 2 decades old and things may have improved in healthcare, but probably not as much as they should. The greater autonomy granted to healthcare professionals especially to medical consultants compared to those in military hierarchies may account for some of the differences.

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