Design and validation of a brief questionnaire on the patient's view of safety in the emergency department

作者：Gonzalez Cabrera Joaquin; Fernandez Prada Maria; Molina Ruano Rogelio^*; Trujillo Humberto; Maria Peinado Jose

来源：Emergencias, 2014, 26(4): 275-280.

• Patient safety
• Questionnaire
• Emergency health services

Objectives: 1) To design a brief questionnaire based on good practices to assess the patient's perspective on safety in the emergency department; 2) to assess the tool's validity and reliability; and 3) to explore preliminary results.
Methods: Questionnaire validation study performed between August 2011 and February 2012. The brief patient safety questionnaire was designed and tested in 301 patients attended in the emergency department of Hospital Universitario San Cecilio de Granada, Spain.
Results: Exploratory factorial analysis to assess the dimensionality of the tool found that 1 factor explained more than 44.909% of the total variance. The Cronbach alpha calculated based on standardized scores exceeded 0.822. Significant differences (P<.004) were found in the mean scores of patients who reported an adverse event or made a complaint and those who did not. The preliminary results suggest that the patients had a positive view of safety in the emergency department.
Conclusions: The questionnaire has high internal consistency and reliability as well as high external validity based on the external criteria used in the design. We therefore conclude that this instrument is valid for quickly assessing the patient's view of safety in an emergency department.

• 出版日期2014-8