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Table 2 Comparision of Manchester Patient Safety Framework (MaPSaF) and Hospital Survey on Patient Safety Culture (HSOPSC)

From: Patient safety and safety culture in primary health care: a systematic review

The Manchester Patient Safety Framework (MaPSaF)

The Hospital Survey on Patient Safety Culture (HSOPSC)

Developed by University of Manchester

Developed by the US agency for Healthcare and Research

Defined patient safety culture according to 10 dimensions:

• Continuous improvement

• Priority given to staff

• System errors and individual responsibility

• Recording incidents

• Evaluation incidents

• Learning and effecting change

• Communication personnel management

• Staff education

• teamwork

Defined patient safety culture according to 12 dimensions:

• Frequency of error reporting

• Number or error reporting

• Supervisors expectations and actions

• Organizational learning

• Teamwork within units

• Communication openness

• Feedback and communication about errors\

• Non-punitive response to errors

• Staffing

• Management support

• Teamwork across units

• Handoffs and transitions

Reflects on safety culture, highlights differences in perception between staff groups help understand what a mature safety culture might look like and monitor changes over time

The tool can assess safety culture at individual, unit and organizational level.

Deigned to be used in the UK context

Designed to be used globally