Hospital SOPS scores

An early criticism of patient safety culture survey data was that there was not sufficient evidence that culture was related to medical error, patient safety or quality or patient outcomes. There are still very few empirical studies linking the Hospital SOPS to these important outcomes and many more studies are needed. However, there have been a few key studies showing positive relationships between Hospital SOPS scores and outcomes. 

Next, we describe highlights of results from the Hospital SOPS 2012 Comparative Database Report (Sorra et al. 2012). As mentioned earlier, the 2012 database report presents results from 1,128 hospitals and 567,703 hospital staff resporrderrts. Database scores on the strrvey ate calculated by computing the percerrt positive response which is the percentage of respondents that answered an item in a positive... 

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