@article{5448,
  keywords = {hospital, leadership, leadership walkrounds, patient safety, safety climate},
  author = {René Schwendimann and Judy Milne and Karen Frush and Dietmar Ausserhofer and Allan Frankel and Bryan Sexton},
  title = {A closer look at associations between hospital leadership walkrounds and patient safety climate and risk reduction: a cross-sectional study.},
  abstract = {<p>Leadership walkrounds (WRs) are widely used in health care organizations to improve patient safety. This retrospective, cross-sectional study evaluated the association between WRs and caregiver assessments of patient safety climate and patient safety risk reduction across 49 hospitals in a nonprofit health care system. Linear regression analyses using units' participation in WRs were conducted. Survey results from 706 hospital units revealed that units with ≥ 60% of caregivers reporting exposure to at least 1 WR had a significantly higher safety climate, greater patient safety risk reduction, and a higher proportion of feedback on actions taken as a result of WRs compared with those units with <60% of caregivers reporting exposure to WRs. WR participation at the unit level reflects a frequency effect as a function of units with none/low, medium, and high leadership WR exposure.</p>},
  year = {2013},
  journal = {Am J Med Qual},
  volume = {28},
  pages = {414-21},
  month = {12/2013},
  issn = {1555-824X},
  doi = {10.1177/1062860612473635},
  language = {eng},
}