The H-PEPSS: an instrument to measure health professionals' perceptions of patient safety competence at entry into practice.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Enhancing competency in patient safety at entry to practice requires introduction and integration of patient safety into health professional education. As efforts to include patient safety in health professional education increase, it is important to capture new health professionals' perspectives of their own patient safety competence at entry to practice. Existing instruments to measure patient safety knowledge, skills and attitudes have been developed largely to examine the impact of specific patient safety curricular initiatives and the psychometric analyses of the instruments used thus far have been exploratory in nature.

Methods

Confirmatory factor analytic approaches are used to extensively test the Health Professional Education in Patient Safety Survey (H-P

SUBMITTER: Ginsburg L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3402748 | biostudies-literature | 2012 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature