Table 3 Items of attitude scale
Items | Mean (S.D.) | Corrected item-total correlation |
|---|---|---|
1. Making errors while caring for patients is inevitable. (R) | 2.69 (1.13) | 0.17 |
2. If people paid more attention to their work, medical errors could be avoided. (R) | 1.97 (0.86) | −0.18 |
3. Patients play an important role in preventing medical errors. | 3.87 (0.79) | 0.08 |
4. Most errors are due to things that physicians can’t do anything about. (R) | 3.90 (0.70) | 0.37 |
5. Learning how to improve patient safety is an appropriate use of time in medical school. | 4.45 (0.63) | 0.28 |
6. If there is no harm to a patient, there is no need to address an error. (R) | 4.29 (0.66) | 0.44 |
7. Medical students play an important role in providing patient-centered care. | 4.10 (0.71) | 0.43 |
8. The most important way to reduce medical errors is to have one clear team leader who everybody else follows. (R) | 3.39 (0.96) | 0.17 |
9. Standardizing procedures takes away a clinician’s ability to develop his/her own techniques and eliminates physician creativity. (R) | 3.47 (0.93) | 0.35 |
10. Patient care is provided most efficiently when each team member focuses individually without worrying about what the rest of the team is doing. (R) | 4.21 (0.75) | 0.29 |
11. Most medical errors are because of one provider failing to do his/her job properly. (R) | 3.41 (0.86) | 0.23 |
12. Medical errors used to be a concern, but with modern technology, most providers can make it through their career without committing an error. (R) | 4.33 (0.72) | 0.20 |
13. Students play a key role in ensuring patient safety. | 3.91 (0.85) | 0.44 |
Attitude scale score, mean (SD), Cronbach’s alpha (score range: 3–61) | 47.64 (5.18) | 0.61 |