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Effects of COVID-19 on Patient Safety Culture among Staff at a Teaching Hospital in Malaysia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 September 2023

Karthikayini Krishnasamy Open the ORCID record for Karthikayini Krishnasamy [Opens in a new window] ,
Mohd Idzwan Zakaria ,
Maw Pin Tan ,
Karuthan Chinna ,
Vairavan Narayanan  and
Nazirah Hasnan
Karthikayini Krishnasamy
Affiliation:
Department of Nursing, Universiti Malaya Medical Centre, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Mohd Idzwan Zakaria*
Affiliation:
Academic Unit Trauma and Emergency, Faculty of Medicine, Universiti Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Maw Pin Tan
Affiliation:
Ageing and Age-Associated Disorders Research Group, Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Universiti Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Centre for Innovations in Medicine Engineering, Universiti Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Department of Medical Sciences, Faculty of Healthcare and Medical Sciences, Sunway University, Bandar Sunway, Malaysia
Karuthan Chinna
Affiliation:
Faculty of Business and Management, UCSI University, Selangor, Malaysia
Vairavan Narayanan
Affiliation:
Division of Neurosurgery, Department of Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, University Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Nazirah Hasnan
Affiliation:
Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
*
Corresponding author: Mohd Idzwan Zakaria; Email: idzwan@ummc.edu.my.
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Keywords

Safety cultureSafety Attitudes QuestionnaireCOVID-19Healthcare Workers
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Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness , Volume 17 , 2023 , e494
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© The Author(s), 2023. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of Society for Disaster Medicine and Public Health

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