Aim: To review quantitative studies of safety climate in health care to examine the
psychometric properties of the questionnaires designed to measure this construct. Method: A …

Aim: To explore the factor structure, reliability, and potential usefulness of a patient safety
climate questionnaire in UK health care. Setting: Four acute hospital trusts and nine primary …

Introduction Building a safety culture is an important part of improving patient care.
Measuring perceptions of safety climate among healthcare teams and organisations is a key …

Background The perceived importance of safety culture in improving patient safety and its
impact on patient outcomes has led to a growing interest in the assessment of safety climate …

Despite the importance of safety climate assessment in healthcare, the psychometric
properties of existing safety climate surveys have seldom been tested. We developed a …

Objective To investigate the psychometric properties of the Hospital Survey on Patient Safety
Culture on a Scottish NHS data set. Methods The data were collected from 1969 clinical staff …

Objective: Five years ago the Institute of Medicine recommended improving patient safety by
addressing organizational cultural issues. Since then, surveys measuring a patient safety …

Purpose To determine the effectiveness of patient safety culture strategies to improve
hospital patient safety climate. Data sources Electronic search of the Cochrane Library …

Purpose Measuring and developing a safe culture in health care is a focus point in creating
highly reliable organizations being successful in avoiding patient safety incidents where …

OBJECTIVES: To obtain a measure of hospital safety climate from a sample of National
Health Service (NHS) acute hospitals in Scotland and to test whether these scores were …