Hospital Survey on Patient Safety Culture: 2008 Comparative Database Report. Part II: Appendix A (Overall Results by Hospital Characteristics); Appendix B (Overall Results by Respondent Characteristics); Part III: Appendix C (Trending Results by Responde

摘要

In response to requests from hospitals interested in comparing their results to other hospitals on the Hospital Survey on Patient Safety Culture, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) established the Hospital Survey on Patient Safety Culture Comparative Database. The first comparative database report was released in 2007 and was comprised of data from 382 U.S. hospitals that administered the AHRQ patient safety culture survey to 108,621 hospital staff and voluntarily submitted their data for inclusion in this new database. The Hospital Survey on Patient Safety Culture 2008 Comparative Database Report is an update of the 2007 report. The 2008 report includes more data, reporting results from a total of 519 hospitals and 160,176 hospital staff respondents who completed the survey. In addition, the 2008 report includes a new chapter on trending that presents results showing change over time for 98 hospitals that administered the survey and submitted data twice. Because hospitals will not necessarily administer the hospital patient safety culture survey every single year, but may administer it on an 18-month, 24-month, or other administration cycle, the comparative database will be a rolling benchmark that retains data from prior years when a hospital does not have new data to submit, replaces older data with more recent data when it is available, and adds new data from hospitals submitting for the first time. The comparative database report will be produced yearly through at least 2012. This comparative database report was developed as a tool for the following purposes: Comparison: To allow hospitals to compare their patient safety culture survey results to other hospitals; Assessment and Learning: To provide data to hospitals to facilitate internal assessment and learning in the patient safety improvement process; Supplemental Information: To provide supplemental information to help hospitals identify their strengths and areas with potential for improvement in patient safety culture; Trending: To provide data that describe changes in patient safety culture over time. These are the Appendices to the main report.