Assessing Safety Culture in Pharmacies: The psychometric validation of the Safety Attitudes Questionnaire (SAQ) in a national sample of community pharmacies in Sweden
Open Access
- 11 April 2010
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Springer Science and Business Media LLC in BMC Clinical Pharmacology
- Vol. 10 (1), 8
- https://doi.org/10.1186/1472-6904-10-8
Abstract
Safety culture assessment is increasingly recognized as an important component in healthcare quality improvement, also in pharmacies. One of the most commonly used and rigorously validated tools to measure safety culture is the Safety Attitudes Questionnaire; SAQ. This study presents the validation of the SAQ for use in Swedish pharmacies. The psychometric properties of the translated questionnaire are presentedKeywords
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