18th November 2020
The Editor-in-Chief
Journal of Clinical Practice
Dear Editor,
Re: Interdisciplinary Differences in Patient Safety Culture within a
Teaching Hospital in a South East Asia
We would be grateful if you will consider our manuscript entitled
“Interdisciplinary Differences in Patient Safety Culture within a
Teaching Hospital in a South East Asia” for publication in your
journal. Few studies to date have evaluated patient safety culture in
Asia. We conducted a survey involving over 5000 healthcare workers at a
large teaching hospital in Malaysia and evaluated differences in
responses between professional groups. Our findings found that overall
agreement scores exceeded the satisfactory cut-off scores of 60% and so
did all domain scores apart from stress awareness. There were
significant differences, however, between professional groups, with
nurses having superior scores in nearer all domains compared to doctors,
allied health professionals and support workers.
We are certain that our novel findings would be of great interest to
your readers, particularly to address the gap in international
publications on patient safety.
Thank you.
Yours sincerely,
Dr Maw Pin TAN
Professor
Department of Medicine
Faculty of Medicine
University of Malaya
Kuala Lumpur
mptan@ummc.edu.my; +60 16
3328600