An Empirical Analysis of Patient Safety Culture and Hospital Performance Using the AHRQ Survey on Patient Safety Culture

摘要

This paper empirically tests the relationship between patient safety culture and several different dimensions of performance in a sample of 154 hospitals. We use data from the Hospital Survey on Patient Safety Culture User Comparative Database, which is managed by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), to measure patient safety culture. We measure hospital performance using a set of objective patient safety and quality performance metrics collected by the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services. Our findings indicate that stronger patient safety culture is associated with better hospital performance.