This article was designed to develop a plan for testing the validity and reliability of a new Patient Measure of Organisational Safety (PMOS) and the Patient Incident Reporting Tool (PIRT) in an effort to improve organizational safety in hospitals in the United Kingdom. The authors outlined an intensive, multi-year study in order to validate each instrument, and to determine how each instrument could support the other.
The instrument for including patients in the determination of the safety culture could be useful for a hospital-based study. The study can be used to determine employee attitudes on safety and to educate the staff on the importance of reliable case notes to prevent repeated unsafe incidents.
Ward, J. K., McEachan, R. C., Lawton, R., Armitage, G., Watt, I., & Wright, J. (2011). Patient involvement in patient safety: Protocol for developing an intervention using patient reports of organisational safety and patient incident reporting. BMC Health Services Research, 11(1), 130-139. doi:10.1186/1472-6963-11-130