assessment of human factors & ergonomics effecting patient safety culture in a tertiary healthcare setting of a south asian country

Introduction: the patient safety (ps) movement dates back to the 1950s, but in recent decades has caught up in swift momentum and is also influencing the indian healthcare scenario - a lot of work has been done on the global scenario and we are just catching up. materials methodology: this baseline study assesses the current status of human factors ergonomics w.r.t. patient safety culture in a tertiary healthcare institution of northern india within a study population of doctors (faculty resident), nursing staff (graduates undergraduates), and technicians - a first of its kind for the region. the overall response rate was obtained on the (customized validated) hospital survey on patient safety culture (hsopsc) toolkit.result: the overall response rate came to 75.7% and the composite patient safety culture score was 46.35% (with internal variations).conclusion: this calls for introspection to lift the overall standards of ps and psc and to build further upon them.