Instrument Author:
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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Source:
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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Year:
2011
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Abstract:
In 2004, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) released the Hospital Survey on Patient Safety Culture, a staff survey designed, to help hospitals assess the culture of safety in their institutions. Since then, hundreds of hospitals across the U.S. and internationally have implemented the survey. In response to requests from hospitals interested in comparing their safety culture survey results to other hospitals, AHRQ funded the development of a comparative database on the survey in 2006. The database is comprised of voluntarily submitted data from U.S. hospitals that administered the survey. Comparative database reports were produced in 2007, 2008, 2009, and 2010, and will be produced yearly through at least 2012.
Descriptors:
Patient safety
Questionnaires
Hospitals
Nurses
Number of questions:
42; 12 dimensions
Response Options:
Multiple Choice, with comments section
Validity:
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Reliability:
Internal consistency reliability reflected with Cronbach’s alpha, ranges from .63 – .84.
Subscale/Factors:
Hospital survey toolkit; comparative database; data entry and analysis tool; hospital patient safety improvement resources.
Sample Descriptors:
Staff nurse
Sample Items:
Please indicate your agreement or disagreement with the following statements about your immediate supervisor/manager or person to whom you directly report.
- My supervisor/manager says a good word when he/she sees a job done according to established patient safety procedures……………
Measure Descriptors:
Culture of safety
References:
Nieva VF, Sorra J: Safety culture assessment: a tool for improving
patient safety in healthcare organizations. Qual Saf Health
Care 2003, 12(Suppl 2:ii):17-23.
Instrument Availability:
http://www.ahrq.gov/qual/patientsafetyculture/hospsurvindex.htm
Acronym:
HSOPS
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