Table 1. Characteristics of the publications in the validity assessment of measurement tools on aspects of transitional patient safety.

Level of outcome = the level of outcome in culture-behaviour-outcome continuum.

Authors	N	Country	Measurement tool	Transition	Safety outcome type	Subject of questionnaire	Target population	Response rate
			Patient perspective
Aller 2013	1500	SP	Continuity of care between care Levels (CCAENA)	Hospital<->PCP	HCP outcome	Continuity of care	Patients that have experienced a transition	23%
Berendsen 2009	1404	NL	Consumer Quality Index Continuum of Care (CQI-COC)	PCP referral and relational continuity	HCP outcome	Collaboration between PCP and hospital	Referred patients	65%
Coleman 2002	60	USA	Care Transition Measure (CTM)	Discharge from hospital to home/nursing home	HCP outcome	Care transition	Patients ≥65 years who were recently discharged from hospital and received subsequent skilled nursing care in facility/home.	NR
Coleman 2005	200	USA	Care Transition Measure (CTM)	Discharge from hospital to home/nursing home	HCP and patient outcome	Care transition	Adult patients discharged with primary diagnosis of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, congestive heart failure, stroke, or hip fracture	100%
Graumlich 2008	460	USA	B-prepared	Hospital discharge	HCP outcome	Patient preparedness on hospital discharge	All adult patients discharged by internal medicine hospitalists	NR
Grimmer 2001	500 (patients), 431 (carers)	AUS	PREPARED	Hospital discharge	HCP and patient outcome	Discharge	Patients ≥65 years, recently discharged from hospital	60% (patients), 52% (care givers)
Hadjistavropoulos 2008	204	CAN	Patient continuity of care Questionnaire (PCCQ)	Hospital discharge	HCP outcome	Continuity of care at discharge	Adult patients recently discharged from hospital	NR
Haggerty 2011	236–427	CAN	4 questionnaires with dimension management continuity: PCAS, PCAT-S, CPCI, VANOCSS	PCP<-> other specialists	HCP outcome	Management continuity	Primary care patients who had seen more than one provider in the previous month	54–99%*
Haggerty 2012	256	CAN	Patient Perceived Continuity from Multiple Clinicians	Hos<->PCP	HCP and patient outcome	Continuity of care	Adult patients in primary care seeing other clinicians in a variety of settings	80%
Kollen 2010	1404	NL	Consumer Quality Index Continuum of Care (CQI-COC)	PCP referral and relational continuity	HCP outcome	Continuity of care	Adult patients who had been referred and visited a specialist	65%
Uijen 2011	288	NL	Nijmegen Continuity Questionnaire	Hos<->PCP	HCP outcome	Continuity of care	Patients with comorbidity	72%
Uijen 2012	268	NL	Nijmegen Continuity Questionnaire	Hos<->PCP	HCP outcome	Continuity of care	Patients with comorbidity	76%
			Healthcare professional perspective
Berendsen 2010	496	NL	Doctors’ opinions on collaboration (DOC) questionnaire	Hos<->PCP	HCP outcome and climate	Interprofessional collaboration	PCPs and specialists	45%
Forster 2012	**	CAN	Peer review process of adverse outcome	Hospital discharge	Patient outcome	Adverse events at discharge	NA	NA
Graumlich 2008	417	USA	Modified Physician-PREPARED	Hospital discharge	HCP outcome	Discharge	Community physicians	76%
Hess 2009	12212	USA	CRP-PIM: Communication with Referring Physicians Practice Improvement Module	PCP referral to secondary care consultants (hospital and private groups)	HCP outcomeand climate	Communication of consultants	Referring physicians	?
Nuno-solinis 2013	187	SP	No name reported	Hos<->PCP	Climate	Interprofessional collaboration	Physicians and nurses working in integrated healthcare organisations	16%
Smith 2004	***	USA	Medication discrepancy tool	Hospital discharge	Patient outcome	Medication discrepancies	Practitioners across the continuum of care	NA

SP: Spain; NL: the Netherlands; USA: United States of America; AUS: Australia; CAN: Canada; HOS: hospital; PCP: Primary care practitioner; NA = not applicable; NR = not reported

* PCAS:79%, PCAT-S:91%, CPCI:99%, VANOCCS:64+54%

** Vignette study on 319 case report, 30 physicians

***Vignette study on 20 cases, 6 clinicians