Safety Leadership and Safety Performance in Health Organization: A Systematic Review
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Safety leadership results in safety practices of staff in every organization that focuses on safety. Research objectives for systematic review of evidence to safety leadership and safety practices of health organizations Search for research papers from national and international database journals. Published during 2009 - 2018. The characteristics of research studies were statistically analyzed using descriptive statistics including frequency and percentage. The assessment of the quality of research studies included 10 articles from 2 researchers using the criteria for quality evaluation according to research standards. The reliability was 82 percent (according to the criteria) using Kappa statistic . The test revealed that there was no significant difference between the assessors (k = .026, p = .83)
The results showed that the researches mostly used the concepts of safety leadership mostly included integrated concept as the samples (n=5) and the concept of transformation leadership mostly used the integrated concept (n = 3). In addition, the researcher mostly used safety performance in health organizations , include safety participation and safety compliance (n=7). Safety leadership has relationship and direct effect on safety performance in health organizations (n = 6). The study shows that health organizations to focus on the concept of safety leadership and safety performance. However, there should be experimental research studies and long-term follow-up of the outcomes to provide a characteristics pattern of safety leadership in health care organizations, which will benefit health organization executives in the further
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