Development and validation of a brief culture-of-safety survey.

Cynthia Barnard; Jeanette W. Chung; Vanessa Flaherty; Julie K Johnson; Kathryn Thomas; Dea Hughes; Monica Locker; Karl Y. Bilimoria

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Development and validation of a brief culture-of-safety survey.

June 22, 2022

Barnard C, Chung JW, Flaherty V, et al. Jt Comm J Qual Patient Saf. 2022;48(9):430-438.

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Organizations such as The Joint Commission and the Leapfrog Group require participating healthcare organizations to evaluate their patient safety culture, but surveys can represent a time burden on staff. An Illinois health system aimed to lessen this burden on staff by creating a shorter, revised survey. The final survey consisted of five questions with comparable measurement properties of the original 17-question survey; however, the authors caution the shorter survey will yield less detail than the longer version.

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