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Table 5 Safety Climate Dimensions Categorization

From: Assessing safety climate in acute hospital settings: a systematic review of the adequacy of the psychometric properties of survey measurement tools

Safety Climate Dimension

SOS

items

HSOPSC

Items

SAQ

items

PSCHO

items

Can-PSC items

Total Number of items/dimension

Percentage of items/dimension %

Top management support & institutional commitment to safety

0

7

6

9

7

29

20.6

Teamwork

5

8

7

0

0

20

14.2

Safety systems: “Policies&Procedures, Safety Planning, Hand offs & Transitions, Staffing, Equipment”

2

7

3

6

0

18

12.8

Safety perceptions & Attitudes of staff, Risk perceptions

0

3

3

9

1

17

11.3

Reporting Incidents & “non-punitive” response to error

0

3

1

6

5

14

10.6

Communication openness

1

4

4

1

0

10

7.1

Organizational learning and continuous improvement

1

3

0

1

4

9

6.4

Beliefs about the causes of errors & adverse events

0

0

4

3

0

7

5.0

Training & continuous education

0

0

3

2

0

5

3.5

Staff satisfaction

0

0

5

0

0

5

3.5

Feedback & Communication about adverse events

0

2

0

0

2

4

2.8

Work Pressure

0

2

0

1

0

3

2.1

Other

0

0

0

0

0

0

0.0

Total

9

39

36

38

19

141

100%

  1. HSOPSC Hospital Survey on Patient Safety Culture, SAQ Safety Attitudes Questionnaire, PSCHO Patient Safety Climate in Healthcare Organizations, Can-PSC Canadian Patient Safety Climate Scale, SOS Safety Organizing Scale