Safety Attitudes and Safety Climate Questionnaire
The Safety Attitudes Questionnaire was developed Bryan Sexton, Eric Thomas, and Bob Helmreich with funding from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. The standard citation for the survey is:
Sexton JB, Helmreich RL, Neilands TB, Rowan K, Vella K, Boyden J, Roberts PR, Thomas EJ. The Safety Attitudes Questionnaire: Psychometric Properties, Benchmarking Data, and Emerging Research. BMC Health Services Research 2006;6:44.
Click here for a selected bibliography of studies using the SAQ.
Click here for a Google Scholar search of articles that cite the original questionnaire validation study.
Versions of the survey may be found here:
- Safety Attitudes Questionnaire – Short Form
- Safety Attitudes Questionnaire – Teamwork and Safety Climate
- Safety Attitudes Questionnaire – Ambulatory Version
- Safety Attitudes Questionnaire – ICU Version
- Safety Attitudes Questionnaire – Labor and Delivery Version
- Safety Attitudes Questionnaire – Operating Room Version
- Safety Attitudes Questionnaire – Pharmacy Version
- Safety Climate Survey
Supplemental Documents:
- Safety Attitudes Questionnaire Scale Computation Instructions
- Safety Attitudes Questionnaire Short Form Scale Items
Center members cited
The AHRQ report on "Enabling Medication Management Through Health Information Technology" cited ten papers by Center members McCoy, Singh, and Sittig.
NPR Story Addresses Patient Safety and Privacy
Dr. Sittig, in an interview with NPR, describes the need for a balance between patient privacy and clinician access to improve patient safety and reduce healthcare costs.
Safety Culture
