Table 3.

Average percent positive dimension scores of the enrolled nurses for the Teamwork within units, Hospital handoffs and transitions, and Non-punitive response to error dimensions at Pediatric and Adult Intensive Care Units, Cairo University Hospital, Egypt, 2018 (N = 60)

Patient Safety Culture Dimensions	Average percentage-positive response	Average percentage-positive response Pediatric ICU	Average percentage-positive response Adult ICU	P-value
Teamwork within units	24%	30%	18%	0.229
Work together to finish quickly	27%	37%	17%	0.143
Treat each other with respect	27%	33%	20%	0.382
Others help out when busy	23%	23%	23%	1
Support each other	20%	27%	13%	0.33
Hospital handoffs and transitions	24%	17%	32%	0.103
Shift changes are problematic for patients in this hospital	27%	17%	37%	0.143
Things “fall between the cracks” when transferring patients from one unit to another.	23%	17%	30%	0.36
Important patient care information is often lost during shift changes	23%	17%	30%	0.36
Problems often occur in the information exchange process across hospital units	23%	17%	30%	0.36
Non-punitive response to error	16%	23%	8%	*0.022
The staff feel like their mistakes are held against them	23%	30%	17%	0.36
Staff worry that the mistakes they make are kept in their personnel files	13%	23%	3%	*0.052
When an event is reported, it feels like the person is being written up, not the problem	10%	17%	3%	0.195
Frequency of Events Reported	6%	6%	6%	1
When a mistake is made but caught and corrected before affecting the patient, how often is this reported?	7%	7%	7%	1
When a mistake is made but has no potential to harm the patient, how often is this reported?	7%	7%	7%	1
When a mistake that could harm the patient is made, but it does not, how often is this reported?	3%	3%	3%	1

Statistically significant.