Patient safety culture in nursing: a dimensional concept analysis.

Xianqiong Feng; Kathleen Bobay; Marianne Weiss

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Patient safety culture in nursing: a dimensional concept analysis.

July 30, 2008

Feng X, Bobay K, Weiss M. J Adv Nurs. 2008;63(3).

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This review assessed the concept of safety culture in nursing practice and identified a theory of its construct to design future research.

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