In 2009 we published a paper (Carruthers et al., 2009) reporting on the development and validation of a measure of patient safety attitudes which can distinguish responses between different groups. Although the predictive validity of the measure has not been assessed, it has been used widely across the world to measure patient safety attitudes in a wide range of contexts and for different groups of trainees in healthcare. It has also been used to evaluate undergraduate curricular in patient safety and any changes thereof. Here we provide the original paper (measure is described in the paper). Please note that there is a minor error in the original paper and the item ‘Most medical errors result from careless nurses’ should also be reverse scored before calculating the overall or domain score.
We later (in 2013) updated and extended the measure and this too has been used in a number of studies. Here we provide the original paper (and tool). We have produced scoring guidance for this tool. If you would like to use either of these measures, please provide a short request and details of your study.
If you use the measure in your study and later produce a report or publication, please reference the original paper and, if you used the latest version, provide a link to the website where this is hosted.
