Supplementary material BMJ Open

The Hospital Survey on Patient Safety Culture (HSPSC): A Systematic Review on Psychometric
Properties and Characteristics of Use of Sixty-Two International Studies

Supplementary File 1: Search Strategy

Database: Scopus (https://www.scopus.com)

Search Date: 19/07/2018

Search Terms: “Hospital Survey on Patient Safety Culture”; HSPSC; HSOPSC; HSOPS; “Survey on Patient
Safety Culture”; SOPS
The Boolean operator used was “or”.
The title, abstract and key words were searched for these terms.

Limitations: Date: Published between 2004 and 19 July 2018

Language: English
Subject Areas: Business, Management and Accounting; Dentistry; Engineering; Health
Professions; Medicine; Multidisciplinary; Neuroscience; Nursing; Psychology; Social
Sciences; Undefined

Search Query: ( TITLE-ABS-KEY ( "Hospital Survey on Patient Safety Culture" ) OR TITLE-ABS-KEY ( hspsc
) OR TITLE-ABS-KEY ( hsopsc ) OR TITLE-ABS-KEY ( hsops ) OR TITLE-ABS-KEY ( "Survey on Patient
Safety Culture" ) OR TITLE-ABS-KEY ( sops ) ) AND PUBYEAR > 2002 AND ( LIMIT-TO ( SUBJAREA ,
"ENGI" ) OR LIMIT-TO ( SUBJAREA , "MEDI" ) OR LIMIT-TO ( SUBJAREA , "SOCI" ) OR LIMIT-TO (
SUBJAREA , "NURS" ) OR LIMIT-TO ( SUBJAREA , "NEUR" ) OR LIMIT-TO ( SUBJAREA , "PSYC" ) OR
LIMIT-TO ( SUBJAREA , "BUSI" ) OR LIMIT-TO ( SUBJAREA , "HEAL" ) OR LIMIT-TO ( SUBJAREA ,
"MULT" ) OR LIMIT-TO ( SUBJAREA , "DENT" ) OR LIMIT-TO ( SUBJAREA , "Undefined" ) ) AND (
LIMIT-TO ( LANGUAGE , "English" ) )

Total of articles found in search: 3149 articles found

Abstract and Text Screening Criteria:

 Report empirical data relating to use of HSPSC
 Describe aspects of psychometric properties
 Sample information
 Changes made to HSPSC included
 Internal reliability of dimensions within the original 12-Factor model
 Conduct CFA /& EFA

Waterson P, et al. BMJ Open 2019; 9:e026896. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2018-026896