open access: Hospital Survey on Patient Safety Culture 2012 User Comparative Database Report (U.S.)

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). 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 A and B—Overall Results by Hospital and Respondent Characteristics Appendix A: Overall Results by Hospital Characteristics Appendix B: Overall Results by Respondent Characteristics Appendix C and D—Trending Results by Hospital and Respondent Characteristics Appendix C: Trending Results by Hospital Characteristics Appendix D: Trending Results by Respondent Characteristics