Organisational targets of patient safety improvement programs in primary care; an international web-based survey

BMC Primary Care

Table 3 Average score per pre-defined domain

	N	Number of items	Theoretical range	Mean	Std. deviation
A Hygiene	65	4	0-4	3.42	0.70
B Information technology	63	3	0-4	3.18	0.69
C Emergency medicine	65	6	0-4	3.16	0.60
D Incident reporting	63	6	0-4	3.02	0.57
E Patient records	65	4	0-4	2.92	0.65
F Coordination of care	63	3	0-4	2.88	0.64
G Decision support tools	65	7	0-4	2.87	0.54
H Quality management	64	5	0-4	2.68	0.49
I Medication	63	9	0-4	2.68	0.66
J Accessibility / triage	65	5	0-4	2.49	0.59

0 corresponds to ‘Not important’, 4 to ‘Extremely important’. The domains are sorted to score.

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