GUIDELINES FOR A CULTURE OF SAFETY SURVEY - THAT DEMONSTRATES VALIDITY, CONSISTENCY, AND RELIABILITY - Option 1:

GUIDELINES FOR A CULTURE OF SAFETY SURVEY THAT DEMONSTRATES VALIDITY, CONSISTENCY, AND RELIABILITY For the purposes of reporting on Safe Practice 2 Culture Measurement, Feedback, and Intervention, hospitals must conduct a culture of safety survey of their employees (the units surveyed must account for at least 50% of the aggregated care delivered to patients within the facility and includes the hi. [...] The Leapfrog Culture of Safety Expert Panel has identified a set of options for survey content: • Option 1: Unaltered, nationally recognized tool with information on the validity, consistency, and reliability of the tool published in peer-reviewed literature. [...] The tool developers must establish and document why they included the questions and domains in the survey to support the theory of culture. [...] In addition to establishing a theory of culture, tool developers must document that the *tool demonstrates three of the four following qualities: *The testing done to demonstrate the validity, consistency, and reliability of an Option 3 survey tool needs to include ALL the questions that make-up the Culture of Safety survey (i.e., the entire survey tool), not just new questions or new domains. [...] As an example, the predictive validity of a culture of safety scale would be demonstrated by examining the correlation between a unit’s score on the scale (at a point in time) and rates of preventable harm in the unit (at a future point in time).