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en Patient Safety Culture and its Predictive Factors in a Hospital in Iran <pre style="text-align:justify"> Aims: This study aimed to assess the patient safety culture and its predictive factors among health care providers working at a hospital in Iran.</pre> <pre style="text-align:justify"> Instrument & Methods: In this cross-sectional study, 250 health care providers at the hospital were recruited through convenience sampling. Data were collected using the Hospital Survey of Patient Safety Culture, which included 42 items across 12 dimensions of safety culture. Data analysis was performed using SPSS 19.</pre> <pre style="text-align:justify"> Findings: The overall level of safety culture among health care providers was moderate (3.17%). The highest and lowest levels of patient safety culture reported by health care providers were observed in the dimensions of teamwork across organizational units (65.9%) and organizational learning (13.42%), respectively. There were significant relationships between the total patient safety culture score and the variables of sex, age, and shift type (p<0.05).</pre> <pre style="text-align:justify"> Conclusion: Patient safety culture is below the standard in the studied hospital, and is associated with age, sex, and shift type.</pre> Patient Safety,Safety Culture,Health Care Providers,Care Quality,Care, 73 80 http://jccs.daneshafarand.org/browse.php?a_code=A-10-1165-78&slc_lang=en&sid=8 Z. Merdasi 1003194753284600388011 1003194753284600388011 No Nursing Department, Faculty of Nursing and Midwifery, Lorestan University of Medical Sciences, Khorramabad, Iran F. Goudarzi 1003194753284600388012 1003194753284600388012 Yes “Department of Nursing, Faculty of Nursing and Midwifery” and “Social Determinants of Health Research Center”, Lorestan University of Medical Sciences, Khorramabad, Iran Sh. Hasanvand 1003194753284600388013 1003194753284600388013 No “Department of Nursing, Faculty of Nursing and Midwifery” and “Social Determinants of Health Research Center”, Lorestan University of Medical Sciences, Khorramabad, Iran M. Birjandi 1003194753284600388014 1003194753284600388014 No Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, Faculty of Health and Nutrition, Lorestan University of Medical Sciences, Khorramabad, Iran N. Galehdar 1003194753284600388015 1003194753284600388015 No “Social Determinants of Health Research Center” and “Department of Surgical Technologist, Faculty of Paramedical”, Lorestan University of Medical Sciences, Khorramabad, Iran