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Hospital Survey on Patient Safety Culture: 2012 User Comparative Database Report

New AHRQ Report Shows Patient Safety Culture Strengths and Areas for Improvement in Hospitals

A new report from AHRQ shows that 80 percent of hospital staff feel there is strong teamwork within units, but only 45 percent of hospital staff have positive perceptions of handoffs and transitions across hospital units.

The sixth annual edition of the Hospital Survey on Patient Safety Culture: 2012 User Comparative Database Report provides results from 567,703 staff from 1,128 U.S. hospitals. The report enables hospitals to compare their patient safety culture scores with other U.S. hospitals. In addition, the 2012 report presents trending data from 650 hospitals on changes in patient safety culture perceptions over time. The full report contains detailed comparative data for various hospital characteristics (e.g., bed size, teaching status, ownership and control, region) and respondent characteristics (e.g., work areas, staff positions, and interaction with patients).

The Hospital Survey on Patient Safety Culture is used to assess the opinions of diverse hospital staff about patient safety issues, medical error, and event reporting. It measures 12 areas or composites of patient safety culture.

Select to access the report: http://www.ahrq.gov/qual/hospsurvey12/. U.S. hospitals using the survey are encouraged to submit data to the database between May 15 and June 15; select for details.

Hospital Comparative Database Submission Information

Hospital Survey on Patient Safety Culture: 2012 User Comparative Database Report

Based on data from 1,128 U.S. hospitals, the Hospital Survey on Patient Safety Culture: 2012 User Comparative Database Report provides initial results that hospitals can use to compare their patient safety culture to other U.S. hospitals. In addition, the 2012 report presents results showing change over time for 650 hospitals that submitted data more than once. The report consists of a narrative description of the findings and four appendixes, presenting data by hospital characteristics and respondent characteristics for the database hospitals overall and separately for the 650 trending hospitals.

Select to download print version (Part 1, PDF File, 1.8 MB; Parts 2 and 3, PDF File, 1.6 MB). PDF Help.

The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) released the Hospital Survey on Patient Safety Culture, a tool to help hospitals evaluate how well they had established a culture of safety in their institutions, in 2004. A database was also needed so hospitals and units in hospitals could determine how well they were doing in establishing a culture of safety in comparison to other similar hospitals or hospital units.

The Hospital Survey on Patient Safety Culture: 2012 User Comparative Database Report meets that need. Based on data provided voluntarily by 1,128 U.S. hospitals, the Report provides results that hospitals can use as one basis for comparison in their efforts to establish, improve, and maintain a culture of patient safety in their institutions.

The main report presents statistics (averages, standard deviations, minimum and maximum scores and percentiles) on the patient safety culture areas or composites assessed in the survey as well as the survey items.
Appendixes A and B present breakouts of the data by hospital characteristics (bed size, teaching status, ownership and control, region) and respondent characteristics (hospital work area/unit, staff position, interaction with patients). Appendixes C and D show trends over time for the 650 hospitals that administered the survey and submitted data more than once. The average percent positive scores are shown for the composites and items, broken down by hospital characteristics (bed size, teaching status, ownership and control) and respondent characteristics (hospital work area/unit, staff position, interaction with patients).
Another round of voluntary data collection is planned to update the database with results from additional hospitals. Select for Hospital Comparative Database Submission Information.