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Psychometric Properties of the Greek Version of the Medical Office on Patient Safety Culture in Primary Care Settings

Background: Safety culture is considered one of the most crucial premises for further development of patient care in healthcare. During the eight-year economic crisis (2010–2018), Greece made significant reforms in the way the primary health care system operates, aiming at the more efficient operati...

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Autores principales: Antonakos, Ioannis, Souliotis, Kyriakos, Psaltopoulou, Theodora, Tountas, Yannis, Papaefstathiou, Athanasios, Kantzanou, Maria
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8401961/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34436221
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/medicines8080042
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author Antonakos, Ioannis
Souliotis, Kyriakos
Psaltopoulou, Theodora
Tountas, Yannis
Papaefstathiou, Athanasios
Kantzanou, Maria
author_facet Antonakos, Ioannis
Souliotis, Kyriakos
Psaltopoulou, Theodora
Tountas, Yannis
Papaefstathiou, Athanasios
Kantzanou, Maria
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description Background: Safety culture is considered one of the most crucial premises for further development of patient care in healthcare. During the eight-year economic crisis (2010–2018), Greece made significant reforms in the way the primary health care system operates, aiming at the more efficient operation of the system without degrading issues of safety and quality of the provided health services. In this context, this study aims to validate a specialized tool—the Medical Office Survey on Patient Safety Culture (MOSPSC)—developed by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) to evaluate primary care settings in terms of safety culture and quality. Methods: Factor analysis determined the correlation of the factor structure in Greek data with the original questionnaire. The relation of the factor analysis with the Cronbach’s coefficient alpha was also determined, including the construct validity. Results: Eight composites with 34 items were extracted by exploratory factor analysis, with acceptable Cronbach’s alpha coefficients and good construct validity. Consequently, the composites jointly explained 62% of the variance in the responses. Five items were removed from the original version of the questionnaire. As a result, three out of the eight composites were a mixture of items from different compounds of the original tool. The composition of the five factors was similar to that in the original questionnaire. Conclusions: The MOSPSC tool in Greek primary healthcare settings can be used to assess patient safety culture in facilities across the country. From the study, the patient safety culture in Greece was positive, although few composites showed a negative correlation and needed improvement.
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spelling pubmed-84019612021-08-29 Psychometric Properties of the Greek Version of the Medical Office on Patient Safety Culture in Primary Care Settings Antonakos, Ioannis Souliotis, Kyriakos Psaltopoulou, Theodora Tountas, Yannis Papaefstathiou, Athanasios Kantzanou, Maria Medicines (Basel) Article Background: Safety culture is considered one of the most crucial premises for further development of patient care in healthcare. During the eight-year economic crisis (2010–2018), Greece made significant reforms in the way the primary health care system operates, aiming at the more efficient operation of the system without degrading issues of safety and quality of the provided health services. In this context, this study aims to validate a specialized tool—the Medical Office Survey on Patient Safety Culture (MOSPSC)—developed by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) to evaluate primary care settings in terms of safety culture and quality. Methods: Factor analysis determined the correlation of the factor structure in Greek data with the original questionnaire. The relation of the factor analysis with the Cronbach’s coefficient alpha was also determined, including the construct validity. Results: Eight composites with 34 items were extracted by exploratory factor analysis, with acceptable Cronbach’s alpha coefficients and good construct validity. Consequently, the composites jointly explained 62% of the variance in the responses. Five items were removed from the original version of the questionnaire. As a result, three out of the eight composites were a mixture of items from different compounds of the original tool. The composition of the five factors was similar to that in the original questionnaire. Conclusions: The MOSPSC tool in Greek primary healthcare settings can be used to assess patient safety culture in facilities across the country. From the study, the patient safety culture in Greece was positive, although few composites showed a negative correlation and needed improvement. MDPI 2021-07-26 /pmc/articles/PMC8401961/ /pubmed/34436221 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/medicines8080042 Text en © 2021 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8401961/
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http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/medicines8080042
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