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

Monaca C, Bestmann B, Kattein M, Langner D, Müller H, Manser T. J Patient Saf. 2017 Nov 21; [Epub ahead of print].

Safety culture is traditionally measured from the health care team's perspective. Researchers used a large online survey to develop and validate an 11-item scale to measure patients' perception of safety culture. A recent Annual Perspective explored the growing field of patient engagement in safety.

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