Table 3.

Items of attitude scale

Items	Mean (S.D.)	Corrected item-total correlation
1. Making errors while caring for patients is inevitable. (R)	2.69 (1.13)	0.17
2. If people paid more attention to their work, medical errors could be avoided. (R)	1.97 (0.86)	−0.18
3. Patients play an important role in preventing medical errors.	3.87 (0.79)	0.08
4. Most errors are due to things that physicians can’t do anything about. (R)	3.90 (0.70)	0.37
5. Learning how to improve patient safety is an appropriate use of time in medical school.	4.45 (0.63)	0.28
6. If there is no harm to a patient, there is no need to address an error. (R)	4.29 (0.66)	0.44
7. Medical students play an important role in providing patient-centered care.	4.10 (0.71)	0.43
8. The most important way to reduce medical errors is to have one clear team leader who everybody else follows. (R)	3.39 (0.96)	0.17
9. Standardizing procedures takes away a clinician’s ability to develop his/her own techniques and eliminates physician creativity. (R)	3.47 (0.93)	0.35
10. Patient care is provided most efficiently when each team member focuses individually without worrying about what the rest of the team is doing. (R)	4.21 (0.75)	0.29
11. Most medical errors are because of one provider failing to do his/her job properly. (R)	3.41 (0.86)	0.23
12. Medical errors used to be a concern, but with modern technology, most providers can make it through their career without committing an error. (R)	4.33 (0.72)	0.20
13. Students play a key role in ensuring patient safety.	3.91 (0.85)	0.44
Attitude scale score, mean (SD), Cronbach’s alpha (score range: 3–61)	47.64 (5.18)	0.61

(R) Reversed items