The psychometric properties of the 'Hospital Survey on Patient Safety Culture' in Dutch hospitals

Table 3 Mean factor scores, correlation with patient safety grade and intercorrelations of the 11 dimensions

	Factor	Mean	SD	Patient safety grade	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10
1	Teamwork across hospital units	2.82	0.54	0.29
2	Teamwork within units	3.89	0.44	0.22	0.14
3	Adequate shift changes	3.48	0.68	0.25	0.39	0.20
4	Frequency of event reporting	2.91	0.88	0.26	0.16	0.11	0.15
5	Nonpunitive response to error	3.61	0.63	0.19	0.15	0.29	0.20	0.22
6	Communication openness	3.76	0.58	0.34	0.22	0.34	0.30	0.24	0.37
7	Feedback about and learning from error	3.34	0.61	0.40	0.28	0.25	0.20	0.43	0.30	0.46
8	Supervisor/manager expectations/actions	3.58	0.55	0.37	0.17	0.35	0.19	0.19	0.36	0.46	0.47
9	Hospital management support for patient safety	2.96	0.64	0.36	0.35	0.15	0.25	0.29	0.22	0.34	0.47	0.36
10	Adequate staffing	3.73	0.62	0.16	0.10	0.10	0.09	0.01^†	0.24	0.15	0.01^†	0.22	0.16
11	Overall perceptions of safety	3.33	0.57	0.56	0.31	0.24	0.27	0.22	0.32	0.32	0.36	0.38	0.38	0.33

Note: Factor 10 in relation with factor 1, 2 and 3 is significant at p < 0.05; the remaining correlations are significant at p < 0.01.
^† Not significant.

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