Overview
In response to interest from hospitals using the AHRQ Hospital Survey on Patient
Safety Culture, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality is establishing
the Survey on Patient Safety Culture Database as a central repository for survey
data.
Contents
Purpose of the Database
Benefits of Participation and Database Products
Participation Requirements
Year 1 Timeline and Activities
March 2006: Announcements
April 2006: Registration
May 1-June 30, 2006: Data Submission
July-October 2006: Data Processing and 2006 Chartbook Produced
Year 2
Contact Information
Purpose of the Database
- To gather data from the AHRQ Hospital Survey on Patient Safety Culture into a central repository to serve as an important resource for hospitals. Hospitals will be able to compare their patient safety culture survey results to those of other hospitals in support of patient safety culture improvement efforts.
- To produce average scores and percentiles on the survey items and composites to help hospitals assess their own results to identify strengths and opportunities for patient safety culture improvement.
Select to download Survey Forms and User's Guide.
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Benefits of Participation and Database Products
- Aggregate hospital-level averages and percentiles will be available free to the public in a Chartbook to be posted on the AHRQ Web site. This document will not include any information identifying individual hospitals.
- Additional database breakouts by bed size, teaching status, and other hospital characteristics will be available only to participating hospitals and health systems.
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Participation Requirements
To be eligible for the 2006 Survey on Patient Safety Culture Database, a hospital or health system must have completed administration of the AHRQ Hospital Survey on Patient Safety Culture by May 31, 2006. The survey must have been administered in its entirety without significant modifications or deletions.
All types of hospitals are eligible, from acute care to rehabilitation and
psychiatric hospitals, but the hospitals must be located in the United States
or in a U.S. territory.
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Year 1 Timeline and Activities
March 2006: Announcements
- Announcements publicizing the database
- Calls for data submission
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April 2006: Registration
Registration involves the following steps:
- Step 1: Hospitals and health systems that have administered the AHRQ Hospital Survey on Patient Safety Culture indicate their desire to participate in the
database by sending an E-mail with "Database" in the subject line to safetyculturesurvey@westat.com.
- Step 2: Database staff send registration information.
- Step 3: Hospitals:
- Complete registration information about their hospital.
- Send a copy of the survey(s) actually administered.
- Step 4: Database staff review the registration information and survey to
determine eligibility.
- Step 5: Eligible hospitals/health systems will be given data specifications, asked to provide additional hospital information, sign a data use agreement (PDF file, 145 KB; Plugin Software Help) which assures confidentiality and explains how their data will be used, and asked to submit their survey data.
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May 1-June 30, 2006: Data Submission
- Eligible hospitals and health systems (or their survey vendors) submit their individual-level survey data and other required information about their institutions.
- Hospitals and vendors will use a secure, Web-based system to submit their
survey data online.
- Data files must meet specifications.
- The deadline for submission of all information and survey data files for the 2006 Survey on Patient Safety Culture Database is June 30, 2006.
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July-October, 2006: Data Processing and 2006 Chartbook Produced
- The data submitted will be processed, and averages and percentiles will be
produced.
- The first annual Chartbook based on the Survey on Patient Safety Culture
items and composites will be free and in the public domain on
the AHRQ Web site.
- Additional database breakouts will be produced and made available to participating hospitals and health systems.
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Year 2
A Year 2 Chartbook is planned for 2007 for data collections completed between June 1, 2006, and May 31, 2007. Specific information about Year 2 eligibility requirements and processes will be available later.
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Contact Information
If you are interested in participating in the 2006 Survey on Patient Safety
Culture Database, E-mail safetyculturesurvey@westat.com with
your complete contact information and "Database" in the subject line.
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Current as of April 2006
Internet Citation:
Hospital Survey on Patient Safety Culture: Overview. April 2006. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, MD. http://www.ahrq.gov/qual/hospculture/overview.htm
540 Gaither Road Rockville, MD 20850 