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Safety climate in Swiss hospital units: Swiss version of the Safety Climate Survey
RATIONALE, AIMS AND OBJECTIVES: Safety climate measurements are a broadly used element of improvement initiatives. In order to provide a sound and easy‐to‐administer instrument for the use in Swiss hospitals, we translated the Safety Climate Survey into German and French. METHODS: After translating...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5024001/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25656302 http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jep.12326 |
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author | Gehring, Katrin Mascherek, Anna C. Bezzola, Paula Schwappach, David L.B. |
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description | RATIONALE, AIMS AND OBJECTIVES: Safety climate measurements are a broadly used element of improvement initiatives. In order to provide a sound and easy‐to‐administer instrument for the use in Swiss hospitals, we translated the Safety Climate Survey into German and French. METHODS: After translating the Safety Climate Survey into French and German, a cross‐sectional survey study was conducted with health care professionals (HCPs) in operating room (OR) teams and on OR‐related wards in 10 Swiss hospitals. Validity of the instrument was examined by means of Cronbach's alpha and missing rates of the single items. Item‐descriptive statistics group differences and percentage of ‘problematic responses’ (PPR) were calculated. RESULTS: 3153 HCPs completed the survey (response rate: 63.4%). 1308 individuals were excluded from the analyses because of a profession other than doctor or nurse or invalid answers (n = 1845; nurses = 1321, doctors = 523). Internal consistency of the translated Safety Climate Survey was good (Cronbach's alpha (G) (erman) = 0.86; Cronbach's alpha (F) (rench) = 0.84). Missing rates at item level were rather low (0.23–4.3%). We found significant group differences in safety climate values regarding profession, managerial function, work area and time spent in direct patient care. At item level, 14 out of 21 items showed a PPR higher than 10%. CONCLUSIONS: Results indicate that the French and German translations of the Safety Climate Survey might be a useful measurement instrument for safety climate in Swiss hospital units. Analyses at item level allow for differentiating facets of safety climate into more positive and critical safety climate aspects. |
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spelling | pubmed-50240012016-09-23 Safety climate in Swiss hospital units: Swiss version of the Safety Climate Survey Gehring, Katrin Mascherek, Anna C. Bezzola, Paula Schwappach, David L.B. J Eval Clin Pract Original Articles RATIONALE, AIMS AND OBJECTIVES: Safety climate measurements are a broadly used element of improvement initiatives. In order to provide a sound and easy‐to‐administer instrument for the use in Swiss hospitals, we translated the Safety Climate Survey into German and French. METHODS: After translating the Safety Climate Survey into French and German, a cross‐sectional survey study was conducted with health care professionals (HCPs) in operating room (OR) teams and on OR‐related wards in 10 Swiss hospitals. Validity of the instrument was examined by means of Cronbach's alpha and missing rates of the single items. Item‐descriptive statistics group differences and percentage of ‘problematic responses’ (PPR) were calculated. RESULTS: 3153 HCPs completed the survey (response rate: 63.4%). 1308 individuals were excluded from the analyses because of a profession other than doctor or nurse or invalid answers (n = 1845; nurses = 1321, doctors = 523). Internal consistency of the translated Safety Climate Survey was good (Cronbach's alpha (G) (erman) = 0.86; Cronbach's alpha (F) (rench) = 0.84). Missing rates at item level were rather low (0.23–4.3%). We found significant group differences in safety climate values regarding profession, managerial function, work area and time spent in direct patient care. At item level, 14 out of 21 items showed a PPR higher than 10%. CONCLUSIONS: Results indicate that the French and German translations of the Safety Climate Survey might be a useful measurement instrument for safety climate in Swiss hospital units. Analyses at item level allow for differentiating facets of safety climate into more positive and critical safety climate aspects. John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2015-04 2015-02-05 /pmc/articles/PMC5024001/ /pubmed/25656302 http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jep.12326 Text en © 2015 The Authors. Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice published by John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution‐NonCommercial (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited and is not used for commercial purposes. |
spellingShingle | Original Articles Gehring, Katrin Mascherek, Anna C. Bezzola, Paula Schwappach, David L.B. Safety climate in Swiss hospital units: Swiss version of the Safety Climate Survey |
title | Safety climate in Swiss hospital units: Swiss version of the Safety Climate Survey |
title_full | Safety climate in Swiss hospital units: Swiss version of the Safety Climate Survey |
title_fullStr | Safety climate in Swiss hospital units: Swiss version of the Safety Climate Survey |
title_full_unstemmed | Safety climate in Swiss hospital units: Swiss version of the Safety Climate Survey |
title_short | Safety climate in Swiss hospital units: Swiss version of the Safety Climate Survey |
title_sort | safety climate in swiss hospital units: swiss version of the safety climate survey |
topic | Original Articles |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5024001/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25656302 http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jep.12326 |
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