SOPS® Fact: The SOPS Hospital and Nursing Home Databases will be open for data submission this year

SOPS^® Fact: The SOPS Hospital and Nursing Home Databases will be open for data submission this year

Voluntary data submission will be open for the following:

• Hospital Survey on Patient Safety Culture Database: June 1 – July 20
  • NEW: Hospitals can submit data from the
    • SOPS Hospital Survey Versions 1.0 and 2.0,
    • SOPS Health IT Patient Safety Supplemental Items,
    • SOPS Value and Efficiency Supplemental Items for the Hospital Survey
  • Nursing Home Survey on Patient Safety Culture Database: September 1 – 21

Participating facilities will receive an individual feedback report and summary report displaying their results as well as aggregated results from all database participants. The SOPS Databases contain data from those facilities choosing to submit their SOPS survey data.

Data submission in 2020 will be the last time data from the Hospital Survey on Patient Safety Culture Version 1.0 will be accepted into the Hospital Database. For more information on transitioning to Version 2.0, view the Transitioning to the SOPS Hospital Survey 2.0 and Appendixes documents. 

General information about the SOPS Databases is available at https://www.ahrq.gov/sops/databases/index.html.

Watch the short animated video: Why Submit to the AHRQ SOPS Databases?

Register for a webcast on April 7 to learn more about how to use the SOPS Nursing Home Survey for improvement and how to submit to the Nursing Home Database.

If you have any questions, please contact the AHRQ patient safety culture databases team at 1-888-324-9790 or email at DatabasesOnSafetyCulture@westat.com.