Advancing measurement of patient safety culture.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To examine the psychometric and unit of analysis/strength of culture issues in patient safety culture (PSC) measurement.

Data source

Two cross-sectional surveys of health care staff in 10 Canadian health care organizations totaling 11,586 respondents.

Study design

A cross-validation study of a measure of PSC using survey data gathered using the Modified Stanford PSC survey (MSI-2005 and MSI-2006); a within-group agreement analysis of MSI-2006 data. Extraction Methods. Exploratory factor analyses (EFA) of the MSI-05 survey data and confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) of the MSI-06 survey data; Rwg coefficients of homogeneity were calculated for 37 units and six organizations in the MSI-06 data set to examine within-group agreement.

Principal findings

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SUBMITTER: Ginsburg L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC2669635 | biostudies-literature | 2009 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature