The psychometric properties of the 'Hospital Survey on Patient Safety Culture' in Dutch hospitals.

Marleen Smits; Ingrid Christiaans-Dingelhoff; Cordula Wagner; Gerrit van der Wal; Peter P. Groenewegen

Study

The psychometric properties of the 'Hospital Survey on Patient Safety Culture' in Dutch hospitals.

January 21, 2009

Smits M, Christiaans-Dingelhoff I, Wagner C, et al. BMC Health Serv Res. 2008;8:230.

View more articles from the same authors.

This study examined the Dutch translation of the AHRQ Hospital Survey on Patient Safety Culture and found 11 factors with acceptable reliability and good construct validity.

PubMed citation

Free full text

Related Resources From the Same Author(s)

To what extent are adverse events found in patient records reported by patients and healthcare professionals via complaints, claims and incident reports?

January 30, 2005

The nature and causes of unintended events reported at ten emergency departments.

October 14, 2009

The role of patient safety culture in the causation of unintended events in hospitals.

February 20, 2013

Examining causes and prevention strategies of adverse events in deceased hospital patients: a retrospective patient record review study in the Netherlands.

June 16, 2021

Variation in the rates of adverse events between hospitals and hospital departments.

February 9, 2011

Patient record review of the incidence, consequences, and causes of diagnostic adverse events.

July 7, 2010

Design of a retrospective patient record study on the occurrence of adverse events among patients in Dutch hospitals.

March 14, 2007

Measuring patient safety culture: an assessment of the clustering of responses at unit level and hospital level.

August 26, 2009

Psychometric properties of the Hospital Survey on Patient Safety Culture: findings from the UK.

May 5, 2010

Relating faults in diagnostic reasoning with diagnostic errors and patient harm.

February 8, 2012

Nurses' workarounds in acute healthcare settings: a scoping review.

June 19, 2013

Analysis of unintended events in hospitals: inter-rater reliability of constructing causal trees and classifying root causes.

July 8, 2009

Exploring the causes of adverse events in hospitals and potential prevention strategies.

February 24, 2010

Patient safety culture as a space of social struggle: understanding infection prevention practice and patient safety culture within hospital isolation settings - a qualitative study.

December 14, 2022

Adaptive design: adaptation and adoption of patient safety practices in daily routines, a multi-site study.

August 12, 2020

Compliance with a time-out procedure intended to prevent wrong surgery in hospitals: results of a national patient safety programme in the Netherlands.

August 13, 2014

Errors in medication history at hospital admission: prevalence and predicting factors.

June 20, 2012

Unit-based incident reporting and root cause analysis: variation at three hospital unit types.

August 17, 2016

The impact of hospital accreditation on the quality of healthcare: a systematic literature review.

October 27, 2021

Development, pilot study, and psychometric analysis of the AHRQ Surveys on Patient Safety Culture (SOPS) Workplace Safety Supplemental Items for Hospitals.

June 29, 2022

"Time is of the essence": relationship between hospital staff perceptions of time, safety attitudes and staff wellbeing.

December 8, 2021

Fidelity and the impact of patient safety huddles on teamwork and safety culture: an evaluation of the Huddle Up for Safer Healthcare (HUSH) project.

October 20, 2021

Education and training of nurses in the use of advanced medical technologies in home care related to patient safety: a cross-sectional survey.

March 24, 2021

Organizational readiness to change as a leverage point for improving safety: a national nursing home survey.

September 8, 2021

Psychological safety during the test of new work processes in an emergency department.

April 6, 2022

Differences in medication reconciliation interventions between six hospitals: a mixed method study.

June 29, 2022

Internet of things in healthcare for patient safety: an empirical study.

March 16, 2022

Influence of gender, profession, and managerial function on clinicians' perceptions of patient safety culture: a cross-national cross-sectional study.

June 9, 2021

Using the Generic Analysis Method to analyze sentinel event reports across hospitals: a retrospective cross-sectional study.

April 12, 2023

Experience of learning from everyday work in daily safety huddles: a multi-method study.

September 14, 2022

Overall performance of a drug-drug interaction clinical decision support system: quantitative evaluation and end-user survey.

April 13, 2022

Exploring psychological safety in healthcare teams to inform the development of interventions: combining observational, survey and interview data.

October 28, 2020

Patient safety skills in primary care: a national survey of GP educators.

February 4, 2015

Patients and relatives as auditors of safe practices in oncology and hematology day hospitals.

March 31, 2021

Psychometric properties of the perinatal missed care survey and missed care during labor and birth.

January 19, 2022

Organizational conditions for engagement in quality and safety improvement: a longitudinal qualitative study of community pharmacies.

February 6, 2019

Combined impact of Medicare's hospital pay for performance programs on quality and safety outcomes is mixed.

August 10, 2022

The role of feedback in emergency ambulance services: a qualitative interview study.

April 6, 2022

Health care workers' experiences of workplace incidents that posed a risk of patient and worker injury: a critical incident technique analysis.

July 14, 2021

Seniors managing multiple medications: using mixed methods to view the home care safety lens.

March 2, 2016

Characteristics of morbidity and mortality conferences associated with the implementation of patient safety improvement initiatives, an observational study.

March 16, 2016

Associations of person-related, environment-related and communication-related factors on medication errors in public and private hospitals: a retrospective clinical audit.

November 17, 2021

How gender shapes interprofessional teamwork in the operating room: a qualitative secondary analysis.

January 26, 2022

Closing the loop on test results to reduce communication failures: a rapid review of evidence, practice and patient perspectives.

November 25, 2020

Getting the whole story: integrating patient complaints and staff reports of unsafe care.

July 28, 2021

What is needed to sustain improvements in hospital practices post-COVID-19? A qualitative study of interprofessional dissonance in hospital infection prevention and control.

May 4, 2022

Safety culture of nursing homes: opinions of top managers.

April 6, 2011

Reporting incidents involving the use of advanced medical technologies by nurses in home care: a cross-sectional survey and an analysis of registration data.

July 15, 2020

Support opportunities for second victims lessons learned: a qualitative study of the top 20 US News and World Report Honor Roll Hospitals.

January 19, 2022

A qualitative study of what care workers do to provide patient safety at home through telecare.

June 23, 2021

Patient safety measurement tools used in nursing homes: a systematic literature review.

December 7, 2022

A human factors intervention in a hospital--evaluating the outcome of a TeamSTEPPS program in a surgical ward.

April 14, 2021

Adverse events in women giving birth in a labor ward: a retrospective record review study.

November 3, 2021

Prescribers' perspectives on including reason for use information on prescriptions and medication labels: a qualitative thematic analysis.

March 10, 2021

Nurses' perceptions of safety culture in long-term care settings.

July 8, 2009

The presence and potential impact of psychological safety in the healthcare setting: an evidence synthesis.

August 25, 2021

Identifying no-harm incidents in home healthcare: a cohort study using trigger tool methodology.

August 5, 2020

Fostering a just culture in healthcare organizations: experiences in practice.

August 31, 2022

Predicting avoidable hospital events in Maryland.

December 1, 2021

Exploring the barriers and facilitators of psychological safety in primary care teams: a qualitative study.

May 19, 2021

Effect of burnout among physicians on observed adverse patient outcomes: a literature review.

June 16, 2021

Evaluation of older persons' medications: a critical incident technique study exploring healthcare professionals' experiences and actions.

June 23, 2021

Psychosocial working conditions as determinants of concerns to have made important medical errors and possible intermediate factors of this association among medical assistants - a cohort study.

March 8, 2023

Increased adherence to perioperative safety guidelines associated with improved patient safety outcomes: a stepped-wedge, cluster-randomised multicentre trial.

February 9, 2022

Measurement matters: changing penalty calculations under the hospital acquired condition reduction program (HACRP) cost hospitals millions.

February 24, 2021

Medication administration errors for older people in long-term residential care.

February 1, 2012

Pharmacist counseling when dispensing naloxone by standing order: a secret shopper study of 4 chain pharmacies.

December 9, 2020

A systematic review exploring the content and outcomes of interventions to improve psychological safety, speaking up and voice behaviour.

March 18, 2020

Implementation of crew resource management: a qualitative study in 3 intensive care units.

January 7, 2015

Shared understanding of resilient practices in the context of inpatient suicide prevention: a narrative synthesis.

August 17, 2022

Assessing patients' perceptions of safety culture in the hospital setting: development and initial evaluation of the patients' perceptions of safety culture scale.

February 28, 2018

The development of the concept of return-on-investment from large-scale quality improvement programmes in healthcare: an integrative systematic literature review.

January 11, 2023

Acting between guidelines and reality- an interview study exploring the strategies of first line managers in patient safety work.

February 3, 2021

Towards conceptualizing patients as partners in health systems: a systematic review and descriptive synthesis.

March 8, 2023

Risk factors for clinically relevant deviations in patients' medication lists reported by patients in personal health records: a prospective cohort study in a hospital setting.

March 2, 2022

Using text mining techniques to identify health care providers with patient safety problems: exploratory study.

October 13, 2021

Risky procedures by nurses in hospitals: problems and (contemplated) refusals of orders by physicians, and views of physicians and nurses: a questionnaire survey.

September 28, 2005

Role of the regulator in enabling a just culture: a qualitative study in mental health and hospital care.

August 10, 2022

Assessing patient safety culture in hospital settings.

June 2, 2021

Understanding nurses' and physicians' fear of repercussions for reporting errors: clinician characteristics, organization demographics, or leadership factors?

September 16, 2015

Family involvement in managing medications of older patients across transitions of care: a systematic review.

June 26, 2019

Barriers and facilitators for taking action after classroom-based crew resource management training at three ICUs.

July 2, 2014

Interdisciplinary collaboration across secondary and primary care to improve medication safety in the elderly (The IMMENSE study) - a randomized controlled trial.

November 30, 2022

Safe handover.

November 22, 2017

Interdisciplinary clinicians' attitudes, challenges, and success strategies in providing care to transgender people: a qualitative descriptive study.

October 19, 2022

Hospital quality-review spending and patient safety: a longitudinal analysis using instrumental variables.

July 7, 2021

Explaining the negative effects of patient participation in patient safety: an exploratory qualitative study in an academic tertiary healthcare centre in the Netherlands.

February 1, 2023

Strengthening open disclosure after incidents in maternity care: a realist synthesis of international research evidence.

April 12, 2023

Use of prescribing safety quality improvement reports in UK general practices: a qualitative assessment.

July 14, 2021

Crew resource management training in the intensive care unit. A multisite controlled before-after study.

April 6, 2016

The effect of structured medication review followed by face-to-face feedback to prescribers on adverse drug events recognition and prevention in older inpatients - a multicenter interrupted time series study.

August 10, 2022

How does the WHO Surgical Safety Checklist fit with existing perioperative risk management strategies? An ethnographic study across surgical specialties.

March 18, 2020

Prescribing errors in post-COVID-19 patients: prevalence, severity, and risk factors in patients visiting a post-COVID-19 outpatient clinic.

March 23, 2022

Development and reliability of the explicit professional oral communication observation tool to quantify the use of non-technical skills in healthcare.

July 10, 2013

Reduction in omission events after implementing a rapid response system: a mortality review in a department of gastrointestinal surgery.

March 15, 2023

Perioperative safety determinants in ethnic patient groups.

April 5, 2023

Differences between professionals' views on patient safety culture in long-term and acute care? A cross-sectional study.

September 22, 2021

Staffing, teamwork and scope of practice: analysis of the association with patient safety in the context of rehabilitation.

December 15, 2021

What can we learn from in-depth analysis of human errors resulting in diagnostic errors in the emergency department: an analysis of serious adverse event reports.

May 18, 2022

A systems approach to address the impact of second victim phenomenon.

December 9, 2020

Related Resources

Preventing violence in the health care setting.

June 9, 2021

Patient and visitor aggression in healthcare: a survey exploring organisational safety culture and team efficacy.

June 19, 2019

Patient safety climate strength: a concept that requires more attention.

August 31, 2016

Giving voice to quality and safety matters at board level: a qualitative study of the experiences of executive nurses working in England and Wales.

August 24, 2016

Fighting MRSA infections in hospital care: how organizational factors matter.

August 17, 2016

Cultural transformation after implementation of crew resource management: is it really possible?

July 27, 2016

Assessing the relationship between patient safety culture and EHR strategy.

July 20, 2016

Staying silent about safety issues: conceptualizing and measuring safety silence motives.

July 20, 2016

Comparing trainee and staff perceptions of patient safety culture.

June 29, 2016

Strengthening leadership as a catalyst for enhanced patient safety culture: a repeated cross-sectional experimental study.

June 22, 2016

Encouraging employees to speak up to prevent infections: opportunities to leverage quality improvement and care management processes.

May 18, 2016

Seeing risk and allocating responsibility: talk of culture and its consequences on the work of patient safety.

December 10, 2014

Critical incident stress management (CISM) in complex systems: cultural adaptation and safety impacts in healthcare.

October 1, 2014

Achieving a climate for patient safety by focusing on relationships.

October 1, 2014

Talking behind their backs: negative gossip and burnout in hospitals.

September 24, 2014

Burnout in the NICU setting and its relation to safety culture.

May 7, 2014

Health care huddles: managing complexity to achieve high reliability.

March 26, 2014

"Second victim" casualties and how physician leaders can help.

March 19, 2014

Shift change handovers and subsequent interruptions: potential impacts on quality of care.

March 12, 2014

Between surveillance and subjectification: professionals and the governance of quality and patient safety in English hospitals.

March 5, 2014

Speaking up for patient safety by hospital-based health care professionals: a literature review.

March 5, 2014

How hospital leaders contribute to patient safety through the development of trust.

February 19, 2014

Effect of patient safety strategies on the incidence of adverse events.

February 12, 2014

An exploratory study of knowledge brokering in hospital settings: facilitating knowledge sharing and learning for patient safety?

January 29, 2014

Structuring patient and family involvement in medical error event disclosure and analysis.

January 22, 2014

Prevalence, patterns and predictors of nursing care left undone in European hospitals: results from the multicountry cross-sectional RN4CAST study.

January 22, 2014

Responding to clinicians who fail to follow patient safety practices: perceptions of physicians, nurses, trainees, and patients.

January 22, 2014

Communication-and-resolution programs: the challenges and lessons learned from six early adopters.

January 15, 2014

Sign-out snapshot: cross-sectional evaluation of written sign-outs among specialties.

January 15, 2014

Organizational culture and its implications for infection prevention and control in healthcare institutions.

January 8, 2014

See More About The Topic

Hospitals

Health Care Executives and Administrators

Organizational Behaviorists

General Internal Medicine

Hospital Medicine

The psychometric properties of the 'Hospital Survey on Patient Safety Culture' in Dutch hospitals.

Connect With Us

Sign up for Email Updates

Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

The psychometric properties of the 'Hospital Survey on Patient Safety Culture' in Dutch hospitals.

Connect With Us

Sign up for Email Updates

Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

Submit Your Innovations

Continue as a Guest

Continue Logged In

Submit Your Innovations

Continue as a Guest

Continue logged in

New Users to the PSNet site