doi:10.1016/j.gaceta.2017.01.009spaGiménez-Júlvez, TeresaHernández-García, IgnacioAibar-Remón, CarlosGutiérrez-Cía, IsabelFebrel-Bordejé, MercedesCultura de la seguridad del paciente en directivos y gestores de un servicio de saludART-2017-101637Objective 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.2017http://zaguan.unizar.es/record/6301610.1016/j.gaceta.2017.01.009http://zaguan.unizar.es/record/63016oai:zaguan.unizar.es:63016Gaceta Sanitaria 31, 5 (2017), 423-426by-nc-ndhttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/deed.esinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess