The Emergency Medical Services Safety Attitudes Questionnaire.

Daniel Patterson; David T Huang; Rollin J Fairbanks; Henry E Wang

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The Emergency Medical Services Safety Attitudes Questionnaire.

February 24, 2010

Patterson D, Huang DT, Fairbanks RJ, et al. Am J Med Qual. 2010;25(2):109-15.

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This article reports on the development and validation of a version of the Safety Attitudes Questionnaire specifically designed to assess safety culture in emergency medical services.

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