2014 User Comparative Database Report | Agency for Healthcare Research & Quality (AHRQ)

2014 User Comparative Database Report | Agency for Healthcare Research & Quality (AHRQ)

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Now Available: AHRQ 2014 Hospital User Comparative Database Report

AHRQ has released the “Hospital Survey on Patient Safety Culture: 2014 User Comparative Database Report,” which provides the latest results for hospitals that administered the survey to use in comparing their patient safety culture to other participating U.S. hospitals. Results from 653 U.S. hospitals and 405,281 staff are reported. The database report also presents trend data from 359 hospitals on changes in patient safety culture perceptions over time. Also included are statistics such as averages, standard deviations, minimum and maximum score and percentiles on the patient safety culture composites, and items from the survey. More information on the report is available via email or phone, 888-324-9790.

2014 User Comparative Database Report

Hospital Survey on Patient Safety Culture

Based on data from 653 U.S. hospitals, the 2014 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 2014 report presents results showing change over time for 359 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 359 trending hospitals.

Select to download print version (Part 1, PDF File, 2.4 MB; Parts 2 and 3, PDF File, 3.5 MB).

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Contents

Executive Summary
Purpose and Use of This Report
Chapter 1. Introduction
Chapter 2. Survey Administration Statistics
Chapter 3. Characteristics of Participating Hospitals
Chapter 4. Characteristics of Respondents
Chapter 5. Overall Results
Chapter 6. Comparing Your Results
Chapter 7. Trending: Comparing Results Over Time
Chapter 8. What's Next? Action Planning for Improvement
References
Notes: Description of Data Cleaning and Calculations
List of Tables
List of Charts
Appendixes: Executive Summary
Appendix A: Overall Results by Hospital Characteristics
Appendix B: Overall Results by Respondent Characteristics
Appendix C: Trending Results by Hospital Characteristics
Appendix D: Trending Results by Respondent Characteristics

Managed and prepared by: Westat, Rockville, MD under Contract No. HHSA 290201300003C.

Joann Sorra, Ph.D.
Theresa Famolaro, M.P.S.
Naomi Dyer Yount, Ph.D.
Scott Alan Smith, Ph.D.
Stephen Wilson, M.A.
Helen Liu



The authors of this report are responsible for its content. Statements in the report should not be construed as endorsement by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality or the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

This document is in the public domain and may be used and reprinted without permission except those copyrighted materials noted, for which further reproduction is prohibited without specific permission of copyright holders.

No investigators have any affiliations or financial involvement (e.g., employment, consultancies, honoraria, stock options, expert testimony, grants or patents received or pending, or royalties) that conflict with material presented in this report.

Current as of March 2014

Internet Citation: 2014 User Comparative Database Report: Hospital Survey on Patient Safety Culture. March 2014. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, MD. http://www.ahrq.gov/professionals/quality-patient-safety/patientsafetyculture/hospital/2014/index.html