'Not another safety culture survey': using the Canadian patient safety climate survey (Can-PSCS) to measure provider perceptions of PSC across health settings.

Liane R. Ginsburg; Deborah Tregunno; Peter G. Norton; Jonathan I. Mitchell; Heather Howley

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'Not another safety culture survey': using the Canadian patient safety climate survey (Can-PSCS) to measure provider perceptions of PSC across health settings.

November 13, 2013

Ginsburg LR, Tregunno D, Norton PG, et al. BMJ Qual Saf. 2014;23(2):162-70.

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This study applied survey validation techniques to the Canadian patient safety climate survey and found that it reliably measures safety culture.

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