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A Validity Study of the Safety Attitudes Survey
This large, national study examines the validity of the Safety Attitudes Questionnaire (SAQ) in predicting risk-adjusted morbidity and mortality outcomes for hospital patients on general/vascular services. The SAQ (Sexton JB, et al., 2006) is a well-known, psychometrically sound survey that has been used internationally for many years. It contains 30 items grouped into six scales measuring (1) teamwork climate, (2) safety climate, (3) working conditions, (4) job satisfaction, (5) recognition...
Assessment for Collaborative Environments (ACE-15)
The ACE-15 was designed to help faculty and administrators conduct a rapid assessment of the quality of interprofessional teamwork in clinical sites. Results can be used as a guide for placing learners (students, residents) in positive teaching environments in which interprofessional collaboration is being modeled. This 15-item, self-report survey is appropriate for a broad array of health professionals working in a variety of clinical sites. A validity study including 192 healthcare...
Assessment of Interprofessional Team Collaboration Scale (AITCS)
The AITCS is designed as a diagnostic instrument to evaluate the level of interprofessional collaboration among a variety of health care teams. Specifically, the tool measures partnership, cooperation, and coordination in a 37-item self-report instrument. The results are meant to provide insight into the strengths and weakness of interprofessional teams in a variety of settings. A validation study of 125 healthcare workers demonstrated good factor structure and high internal reliability. A...
Attitudes Toward Health Care Teams Scale (ATHCT)
The ATHCT was designed to gauge the attitudes of trainees and providers towards working in interprofessional healthcare teams. Specifically, the tool measures individuals' beliefs about the quality of care provided by interprofessional teams (i.e., Quality of Care/Process) and their attitudes regarding the physician's central authority role in healthcare teams (i.e., Physician Centrality). These two factors are measured in a 19-item self-report tool. The development of this version...
Collaboration and Satisfaction About Care Decisions (CSACD)
The CSACD was originally designed to measure nurse-physician collaboration in intensive care units (ICUs) as they make specific decisions regarding patient transfers. The tool contains a six-item measure of collaboration as well as a global collaboration item, a decision process satisfaction item, and a final decision satisfaction item. The results, which are at the level of a specific patient decision, are meant to support linking nurse-physician collaboration to ICU patient outcomes. The 1994...
Collaborative Practice Assessment Tool (CPAT)
The CPA is a 56-item self-report tool completed by team members. It was developed as part of several grant-funded projects in Canada under the leadership of the Office of Interprofessional Education and Practice at Queen's University, which maintains a useful website on the tool. The instrument assesses collaborative practice among care giving team members, patients and clients. The goal is to foster self-reflection on team strengths and limitations, and to guide education efforts. In...
Communication and Teamwork Skills (CATS) Assessment
The CATS was designed to measure communication and team skills of health care providers in an onsite (in situ) tool. Specifically, the tool measures situational awareness, coordination, communication, and cooperation. Observers rate 21 behaviors based on crisis resource management behavioral-based markers. A preliminary study observed healthcare workers in gastric bypass surgery, interdisciplinary rounds, and cesarean sections. The results are meant to provide rapid cycle feedback from a...
Communication Assessment Tool- Team (CAT-T)
The CAT-T is a patient satisfaction survey focused on the quality of communication received from a medical team during a visit to the emergency department. "Communication" refers to the interactions between members of the health care team and the patient (not interactions among health care team members). "Communication skills" was considered a single unitary construct undelying all of the items. The CAT-T represents a replication of a previously studied instrument, "...
Healthcare Effectiveness Data and Information Set (HEDIS)
HEDIS is a tool used by more than 90 percent of America's health plans to measure performance on important dimensions of care and service. Because so many plans collect HEDIS data, and because the measures are so specifically defined, HEDIS makes it possible to compare the performance of health plans. Health plans also use HEDIS results themselves to see where they need to focus their improvement efforts. Many health plans report HEDIS data to employers or use their results to make...
Healthcare Team Vitality Instrument (HTVI)
The HTVI was designed to provide healthcare staff with a way to measure team "vitality" in hospital settings. Specifically, the self-report tool measures the individual’s perceptions of environmental support structures, engagement and empowerment, patient care transitions, and team communication. It was designed to be administered to a wide variety of licensed and unlicensed staff. The reference listed below describes a study which sought to refine and shorten the original 20-item...