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Table 1 Organization level variance by patient safety attitudes dimension

From: Patient safety culture lives in departments and wards: Multilevel partitioning of variance in patient safety culture

Dimension (all dimensions scaled 0-100)

Total variance

Variance at individual level (% of total variance)

Variance at ward level (% of total variance)

Variance at department level (% of total variance)

ICC (ratio of organizational level variance to total variance)

Teamwork Climate

(valid n: 1090)

285,365

231,298 (81,1%)

39,245 (13,8%)

14,822 (5,2%)

0,19

Safety Climate

(valid n: 984)

240,638

206,303 (85,7%)

21,733 (9,0%)

12,602 (5,2%)

0,14

Job Satisfaction

(valid n: 1036)

365,350

309,274 (84,7%)

28,081 (7,7%)

27,995 (7,7%)

0,15

Stress Recognition

(valid n: 1024)

491,506

483,168 (98,3%)

1,140 (0,2%)

7,198 (1,5%)

0,02

Work Conditions

(valid n: 843)

411,830

352,886 (85,7%)

20,704 (5,0%)

38,240 (9,3%)

0,14

Perception of Unit Management

(valid n: 949)

519,785

412,491 (79,4%)

68,706 (13,2%)

38,588 (7,4%)

0,21

Perception of Hospital

Management (valid n: 904)

373,291

347,452 (93,1%)

12,430 (3,3%)

13,409 (3,6%)

0,07