Table 3.
Pre- and postcurriculum assessments of patient safety curriculum
Survey Question: I feel confident . . . | Pretest (n = 14) [n (%)] | Posttest (n = 26) [n (%)] | P Value |
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Identifying system causes of medical error | 9 (64) | 24 (92) | 0.04 |
Advocating for safe patient care | 12 (86) | 26 (100) | 0.12 |
Reporting errors and/or near misses through the patient safety reporting system | 10 (71) | 24 (92) | 0.16 |
Teaching others about recognizing and mitigating system error* | 8 (57) | 21 (84) | 0.12 |
Improving systems of care | 7 (50) | 23 (89) | 0.02 |
That participating in the curriculum is important to me | 13 (93) | 26 (100) | 0.35 |
I will use patient safety principles in my career | 14 (100) | 25 (96) | 1.0 |
A comparison of the percentage of agreement among survey respondents between the pre- and postcurriculum assessments is shown. Original survey responses of “agree” or “strongly agree” were categorized as “agreed”; responses of “disagree,” “strongly disagree,” and “neutral” were categorized as “did not agree.”
n = 25 for posttest.