Resumen: Objective To assess patient safety culture in directors/managers. Methods Cross-sectional descriptive study carried out from February to June 2011 among the executive/managing staff of the Aragón Health Service through semi-structured interviews. Results A total of 12 interviews were carried out. All the respondents admitted that there were many patient safety problems and agreed that patient safety was a priority from a theoretical rather than practical perspective. The excessive changes in executive positions was considered to be an important barrier which made it difficult to establish long-term strategies and achieve medium-term continuity. Conclusions This study recorded perceptions on patient safety culture in directors, an essential factor to improve patient safety culture in this group and in the organisations they run. Idioma: Español DOI: 10.1016/j.gaceta.2017.01.009 Año: 2017 Publicado en: Gaceta Sanitaria 31, 5 (2017), 423-426 ISSN: 0213-9111 Factor impacto JCR: 1.581 (2017) Categ. JCR: HEALTH CARE SCIENCES & SERVICES rank: 62 / 94 = 0.66 (2017) - Q3 - T2 Categ. JCR: PUBLIC, ENVIRONMENTAL & OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH rank: 80 / 156 = 0.513 (2017) - Q3 - T2 Categ. JCR: PUBLIC, ENVIRONMENTAL & OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH rank: 108 / 180 = 0.6 (2017) - Q3 - T2 Factor impacto SCIMAGO: 0.495 - Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health (Q2)