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Table 1 Interview guide used to engage participants in discussion around measuring and monitoring safety in SA

From: Measuring and monitoring patient safety in hospitals in Saudi Arabia

1. In the Saudi healthcare system, how is harm to patients measured and monitored?

1.1. What are the strengths and limitation of methods used?

1.2. Are there other methods of measuring and monitoring harm that you think should be used? and if so, what are these and why do you think they’d be useful?

2. What methods are in place to assess whether our clinical systems, processes and behaviour reliable?

2.1. What are the strengths and limitation of each of these methods?

2.2. Are there other methods of measuring and monitoring standardised clinical practice that you think should be used?

3. What methods are in place to assess whether care is safe in hospitals in Saudi Arabia today?

3.1. What are the strengths and limitation of each of these methods?

3.2. Are there other methods of measuring and monitoring whether patient care is safe today you think should be used? and if so, what are these and why do you think they be useful?

4. What methods are in place to anticipate and reduce future risks to patients’ hospitals in Saudi Arabia?

4.1. What are the strengths and limitation of each of these methods?

4.2. Are there other methods of improving the anticipation and reduction of future risk to patients that you think should be used? and if so, what are these and why do you think they be useful?

5. What methods are in place to promote learning from issues and improving the level of patient safety in hospitals in Saudi Arabia?

5.1. What are the strengths and limitation of each of these methods?

5.2. Are there other methods of prompting learning that you think should be used, and if so, what are these and why do you think they be useful?