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The Safety Attitudes Questionnaire: psychometric properties, benchmarking data, and emerging research
BMC Health Services Research · 2006 · Vol. 6(1) · pp. 44–44
J. Bryan Sexton✉(National Patient Safety Foundation)Robert L. Helmreich(National Patient Safety Foundation)Torsten B. Neilands(San Francisco AIDS Foundation)Kathy Rowan(Intensive Care National Audit & Research Centre)Keryn Vella(Intensive Care National Audit & Research Centre)James Boyden(Royal Cornwall Hospital)Peter R Roberts(Medical Research Institute of New Zealand)Eric J. Thomas(National Patient Safety Foundation)
Abstract
The Safety Attitudes Questionnaire demonstrated good psychometric properties. Healthcare organizations can use the survey to measure caregiver attitudes about six patient safety-related domains, to compare themselves with other organizations, to prompt interventions to improve safety attitudes and to measure the effectiveness of these interventions.
Patient Safety and Medication ErrorsOccupational Health and Safety ResearchHospital Admissions and OutcomesBenchmarkingRespondentPatient safetyConfirmatory factor analysisSafety culturePsychological interventionMedicineNursing researchScale (ratio)Health care
MeSH terms
Ambulatory Care FacilitiesAttitude of Health PersonnelBurnout, ProfessionalCross-Sectional StudiesFactor Analysis, StatisticalUnited KingdomHealth Services ResearchHospitalsHumansJob SatisfactionNew ZealandPatient Care TeamPsychometricsSurveys and QuestionnairesUnited States
Funding
- Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
- Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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