Feedback Results

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Slide 1

Survey Background

The Hospital Survey on Patient Safety Culture was sponsored by the Quality Interagency Coordination Task Force (QuIC), a group established in accordance with a 1998 Presidential directive to ensure that all Federal agencies involved in purchasing, providing, studying, or regulating health care services are working together and toward a common goal of improving quality care. The survey was funded by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ).

The development of this safety culture assessment tool included a review of the scientific literature pertaining to safety, error and accidents, as well as error reporting. In addition, hospital employees and managers were interviewed to identify key patient safety and error reporting issues. Other published and unpublished safety culture assessment tools also were examined.

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Survey Measures

The Hospital Survey on Patient Safety Culture is designed to measure:

Four overall patient safety outcomes:

1. Overall perceptions of safety.
2. Frequency of events reported.
3. Number of events reported.
4. Overall patient safety grade.

The research survey also is intended to measure:

Ten dimensions of culture pertaining to patient safety:

1. Supervisor/manager expectations & actions promoting patient safety.
2. Organizational learning—continuous improvement.
3. Teamwork within units.
4. Communications openness.
5. Feedback & communications about error
6. Nonpunitive response to error.
7. Staffing.
8. Hospital management support for patient safety.
9. Teamwork across hospital units.
10. Hospital handoffs & transitions.

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Survey Methodology

{In a short paragraph, describe your hospital's sample and data collection methodology}

In Date(s), the Hospital Survey on Patient Safety Culture was distributed to a sample of XX staff at Hospital X. Overall, XX responses to the survey were received, a(n) XX% response rate.

To maximize response rates, standard survey procedures were followed:

1. A prenotification letter from the hospital X was distributed, encouraging participation.
2. One week later, the survey was distributed, including a cover letter from the hospital X, a survey, and a postage-paid return envelope.
3. Two weeks after the survey, a reminder postcard was distributed to nonrespondents.
4. Two weeks after the reminder postcard, a second survey was distributed to nonrespondents.
5. Two weeks after the second survey, a final reminder postcard was distributed to nonrespondents.

In this feedback report, the percentages of employee responses to specific survey items are grouped according to the safety culture dimensions being assessed. Some percentages shown in the graphs may not add to 100% due to rounding. Since the total number of respondents was XX, in each graph XX% is approximately equivalent to one person's answer.

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Demographic Data about Respondents

1. Primary hospital work area, department or clinical area where respondents spend most of their work time:

____ % Many different hospital units / No specific unit
____ % Medicine (non-surgical)
____ % Surgery
____ % Obstetrics
____ % Pediatrics
____ % Emergency department
____ % Intensive care unit (any type)
____ % Psychiatry / mental health
____ % Rehabilitation
____ % Pharmacy
____ % Laboratory
____ % Radiology
____ % Anesthesiology
____ % Other
____ % (Blank/Missing)

2. Staff position in the hospital:

____ % Registered nurse
____ % Physician assistant / Nurse practitioner
____ % LVN / LPN
____ % Patient care assistant / Hospital aide / Care partner
____ % Attending / Staff physician
____ % Resident physician / Physician in training
____ % Pharmacist
____ % Dietician
____ % Unit assistant / Clerk / Secretary
____ % Respiratory therapist
____ % Physical, occupational, or speech therapist
____ % Technician (e.g., EKG, Lab, Radiology)
____ % Administration / Management
____ % Other
____ % (Blank/Missing)

Slide 5

Demographic Data (continued)

3. Time worked

4. Percentage of respondents with direct interaction or contact with patients: ____ %

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Main Findings: Strengths

We identify as strengths, those positively worded items which about 75% of respondents endorse by answering "Agree / Strongly agree," or "Most of the time / Always" (or when about 75% of respondents disagreed with negatively worded items).

A number of strengths emerged from the results:

• Most respondents...
• Respondents...

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Main Findings: Areas for Improvement

Areas with the potential for improvement were identified as items which about 50% of respondents answered negatively using "Disagree / Strongly disagree" or "Never / Rarely" (or when 50% of respondents disagreed with positively worded items).

A number of areas for improvement emerged from the results:

• Most respondents...
• Respondents...

Slide 8

Overall Perceptions of Safety

^R Indicates reversed-worded items.

Note: The item letter and number in parentheses indicate the item's survey location.

Slide 9

Frequency of Events Reported

Note: The item letter and number in parentheses indicate the item's survey location.

Slide 10

Number of Events Reported

Respondents were asked to indicate the number of events they had reported in the past 12 months.

1. In the past 12 months, how many event reports have you filled out and submitted? (Survey item G1)

Bar chart shows sample percentage of respondents reporting number of events: Zero events or no response, 5%; 1 to 2 events, 5%; 3 to 5 events, 5%; 6 to 10 events, 5%; 11 to 20 events, 5%; 21 or more events, 5%.

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Overall Patient Safety Grade

Respondents were asked to give their work unit an overall grade on patient safety.

2. Please give your work area/unit in this hospital an overall grade on patient safety. (Survey item E1)

Bar chart displays sample percentage of respondents providing an overall grade on patient safety: A = Excellent, 5%; B = Very Good, 5%; C = Acceptable, 5%; D = Poor, 5%; E = Failing, 5%.

Slide 12

Supervisor/Manager Expectations & Actions Promoting Patient Safety

^R Indicates reversed-worded items.

Note: The item letter and number in parentheses indicate the item's survey location.

Slide 13

Organizational Learning—Continuous Improvement

Note: The item letter and number in parentheses indicate the item's survey location.

Slide 14

Teamwork Within Units

Note: The item letter and number in parentheses indicate the item's survey location.

Slide 15

Communication Openness

^R Indicates reversed-worded items.

Note: The item letter and number in parentheses indicate the item's survey location.

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Feedback and Communication About Error

Note: The item letter and number in parentheses indicate the item's survey location.

Slide 17

Nonpunitive Response to Error

^R Indicates reversed-worded items.

Note: The item letter and number in parentheses indicate the item's survey location.

Slide 18

Staffing

^R Indicates reversed-worded items.

Note: The item letter and number in parentheses indicate the item's survey location.

Slide 19

Hospital Management Support for Patient Safety

^R Indicates reversed-worded items.

Note: The item letter and number in parentheses indicate the item's survey location.

Slide 20

Teamwork Across Hospital Units

^R Indicates reversed-worded items.

Note: The item letter and number in parentheses indicate the item's survey location.

Slide 21

Hospital Handoffs & Transitions

^R Indicates reversed-worded items.

Note: The item letter and number in parentheses indicate the item's survey location.

Slide 22

Staff Comments

(verbatim with spelling and grammar edits)

X% of respondents wrote comments (N = X)

"Section I: Your Comments—Please feel free to write any comments about patient safety, error, or event reporting in your hospital."

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Staff Comments—Page 1