Patient safety, satisfaction, and quality of hospital care: cross sectional surveys of nurses and patients in 12 countries in Europe and the United States

Linda H. Aiken; Walter Sermeus; Koen Van den Heede; Douglas M. Sloane; Reinhard Busse; Martin McKee; Luk Bruyneel; Anne Marie Rafferty; Peter Griffiths; Teresa Moreno‐Casbas; Carol Tishelman; P. Anne Scott; Tomasz Brzostek; Juha Kinnunen; René Schwendimann; Maud Heinen; Dimitrios Zikos; Ingeborg Strømseng Sjetne; Hayden L. Smith; Ann Kutney‐Lee

doi:10.1136/bmj.e1717

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Deficits in hospital care quality were common in all countries. Improvement of hospital work environments might be a relatively low cost strategy to improve safety and quality in hospital care and to increase patient satisfaction.

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Patient safety, satisfaction, and quality of hospital care: cross sectional surveys of nurses and patients in 12 countries in Europe and the United States

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Patient safety, satisfaction, and quality of hospital care: cross sectional surveys of nurses and patients in 12 countries in Europe and the United States

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