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Abstract

Objective

To create, administer, and psychometrically examine a survey to measure two new organizational culture factors – preoccupation with failure and adherence to shared baselines – in healthcare settings.

Method

Direct care providers (n = 4484) from a large healthcare system in the Southern United States completed a survey as part of their annual safety culture assessment.

Results

We provide evidence about the internal consistency (Cronbach’s alpha ranged from .80 to .89) factor structure, concurrent validity (correlation with overall patient safety grade ranged from .60 to .67, p < .05), and discriminant validity (correlations less than .85 with safety and teamwork culture) of these two factors.

Conclusions

We established evidence for internal consistency and validity of two new factors that measure aspects of organizational culture – preoccupation with failure and adherence to shared baselines – that are distinct from safety culture and teamwork culture.

Keywords

Organisational learning,safety culture,high reliability,preoccupation with failure,adherence to shared baselines

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Preoccupation with failure and adherence to shared baselines: Measuring high-reliability organizational culture

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