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. 2017 Nov 9;7(11):e018366. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2017-018366

Table 3.

Appearance of HSPSC items in 12 analysed factor models (8-factor EFA model, original 12-factor model and 10 different versions)

HSPSC items*† Germany (exploratory
factor analysis)
USA (Sorra and Nieva 2004) England (UK)(Waterson et al., 2010) Scotland (UK) (Sarac et al., 2011) France (Occelli et al., 2013) Switzerland (Perneger, 2013) Switzerland
(Pfeiffer and Manser 2010)
Netherlands (Smits et al.,2008) Sweden (Hedsköld et al., 2013) Slovenia (Robida, 2013) Turkey (Bodur, 2010) Palestine (Najjar et al., 2013)
01. Teamwork within units
A1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
A3 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
A4 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
A11 (N) 1 (N) 1 (N) 1 (N) 1 1 1 1 1
02. Organisational learning
A6 (N) 2 (N) 2 8 2 1 8 8 2 2 2
A9 (N) 2 (N) 2 8 2 (N) 8 8 2 3 2
A13 (N) 2 (N) 2 8 2 6 8 8 (N) 2 2
03. Non-punitive response to error
A8 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3
A12 3 3 (N) 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3
A16 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3
04. Staffing
A2 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4
A5 4 4 (N) 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 2 4
A7 (N) 4 (N) 4 (N) 4 (N) 4 4 4 4 (N)
A14 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 5 4 4 4 4
05. Overall perceptions of safety
A10 4 5 4 4 5 5 4 5 4 4 5 (N)
A15 (N) 5 (N) 4 5 5 (N) (N) 4 4 5 5
A17 (N) 5 4 4 5 5 4 5 4 4 5 5
A18 (N) 5 (N) (N) 5 5 7 5 8 4 5 5
06. Supervisor/manager expectations/actions
B1 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6
B2 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6
B3 (N) 6 (N) 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6
B4 6 6 (N) 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6
07. Frequency of event reporting
D1 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7
D2 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7
D3 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7
08. Feedback and communication about error
C1 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 (N)
C3 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8
C5 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8
09. Communication openness
C2 8 9 9 8 9 8 8 9 8 8 8 8
C4 (N) 9 9 8 9 8 8 9 8 8 8 8
C6 (N) 9 9 8 9 8 (N) 9 3 (N) 8 (N)
10. Hospital management support for patient safety
F1 10 10 (N) 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10
F8 10 10 (N) 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10
F9 10 10 (N) 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10
11. Teamwork across hospital units
F2 11 11 11 11 11 11 11 11 10 11 10 11
F4 11 11 11 11 11 11 11 11 10 11 10 11
F6 11 11 (N) (N) 11 11 11 (N) 12 11 12 11
F10 11 11 11 11 10 11 11 11 10 11 10 11
12. Hospital handoffs and transitions
F3 (N) 12 12 (N) 11 11 11 (N) 12 11 12 12
F5 (N) 12 12 12 11 11 (N) 12 12 11 12 12
F7 11 12 12 12 11 11 11 (N) 12 11 12 12
F11 (N) 12 12 12 (N) 11 (N) 12 12 (N) 12 12

Note: The uncoloured cells represent ‘No change’ compared with original 12-factor model.

Coloured boxes indicate items that were deleted (N) or moved to different dimension (dimension numbers 1–12); (N): items removed from factor model.

*01–12, corresponding dimension according to original North-American 12-factor model.

†A1–A18; B1–B4; C1–C6; D1–D3; F1–F11: Codes of the questionnaire items.

HSPSC, Hospital Survey on Patient Safety Culture.