Patient Safety Culture surveys

Hellings, J., Schrooten, W., Klazinga, N. and Vleugels, A. 2007. Challenging patient safety culture Survey resrrlts. International Journal of Health Care Quality Assurance, 20(7), 620-32. 

Kundig, F., Staines, A., Kinge, T. and Pemeger, T.V. 2011. Numbering questionnaites had no impact on the response rate and only a slight influence on the response content of a patient safety culture survey A randomized trial. Journal of Clinical Epidemiology, 64(11), 1262-5. 

Despite the great data and information that are now available as a result of the Hospital SOPS database, one big deficit has been in our understanding of what hospitals are doing between their patient safety culture survey assessments. What initiatives are hospitals implementing How successful are those initiatives in improving patient safety culture and, ultimately, patient safety ... 

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. 

The Hospital Survey on Patient Safety Culture examines patient safety culture from a hospital staff perspective and allows hospitals to assess their safety culture and track changes over time. Hospitals that administer the patient safety culture survey can voluntarily submit their data to the Comparative Database, a resource for hospitals wishing to compare their survey results to similar types of hospitals (AHRQ Publication No. 04-0041). 

Around 2004 the first safety culture tools designed for healthcare began to appear. Maity of these tools are in the form of survey instruments or questioimaires, the two most well-known being the Hospital Survey on Patient Safety Culture (HSPSC) developed by the US Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) and the Safety Attitudes Questionnaire (SAQ - Sexton et al. 2006). Both instruments are described in detail within the book and illustrated with... 

Sorra, J., Famolaro, T., Dyer, N., Nelson, D. andKhanna, K. 2009. Hospital Survey on Patient Safety Culture 2009 Comparative Database Report. Agency for Healthcare Research and CJrrality, AHRQ Ptrblication No. 09-0030, Rockville, MD. 

Smits, M., Christiaans-Dingelhoff, 1., Wagner, C., van der Wal, G. and Groenewegen, P.P. 2008. The psychometric properties of the Hospital Survey on Patient Safety Culture in Dutch hospitals. Biomed Central Health Services... 

Sorra, J.S. and Nieva, YE 2004. Hospital Survey on Patient Safety Culture. Rockville, MD Agency for healthcare research and quality. Available at www.ahrq.gov/qual/hospculture/hospcult.pdf (last accessed on 16 April 2014). 

Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ 2012). 2012 User Comparative Database Report Hospital Survey on Patient Safety Culture. AHRQ, Rockville, MD. Available at http //www.ahrq.gov/qual/hospsurveyl2/ (last accessed on 14 June 2013). 

Bodur, S. andFiliz, E. 2010. Validity and reliabihty of Turkish version of Hospital Survey on Patient Safety Culture and perception of patient safety in pubhc hospitals in Turkey. BMC Health Service Research, 10,28. 

Chen, I.-C. and Li, H.-H. 2010. Measuring patient safely culture in Taiwan using the Hospital Survey on Patient Safety Culture (HSOPSC). BMC Health Service Research, 10, 152. 

Pfeiffer, Y. and Manser, T. 2010. Development of the German version of the Hospital Survey on Patient Safety Culture Dimensionality and psychometric properties. Safety Science, 48(10), 1452-62. 

Sarac, C., Flin, R., Meams, K. and Jackson, J. 2011. Hospital Survey on Patient Safety Culture Psychometric analysis on a Scottish sample. BMJ Quality Safety, 20, 842-8. 

Waterson, RE. and Hutchinson, A. 2011. Use of the Hospital Survey of Patient Safety Culture - A review of the current evidence base, in S. Albolino, S. Bagnara, T. Bellandi, J. Llaneza, G. Rosal-Lopez and R. TartagUa (eds). Healthcare Economics and Patient Safety (HEPS 2011), 22-4 June 2011, Oviedo, Spain. Taylor Francis CRC Press, 473-4. 

In order to identify areas of organisational culture that could be targeted to improve patient safety in Scottish hospitals, a safety culture survey was conducted. The aims of the study were first, to obtain a measure of safety culture from a sample of NHS acute hospitals in Scotland and then to test whether these culture scores were associated with clinical workers safety behaviours and patient and worker injuries. This would also provide a measure of safety culture within the Scottish acute hospital sector and contribute an organisational cultural perspective to the... 

Scottish Hospital Survey on Patient Safety Culture (SHSPSC)... 

Blegen, M.A., Gearhart, S., O Brien, R., Sehgal, N.L. and Alldredge, B.K. 2009. AHRQ s hospital survey on patient safety culture Psychometric analyses. Journal of Patient Safety, 5,139-44. 

In literature several abbreviations are used for the Hospital Survey on Patient Safety Culture (e.g. HSPSC, HSOPSC, HSOPS or SOPS). In the following we will use HSPSC as abbreviation. 

Bodur, S. and Fihz, E. 2009. A survey on patient safety culture in primary healthcare services in Turkey. International Journal for Quality in Health Care, 21(5), 348-55. 

Franklin, M. and Sorra, J. 2012. Pharmacy Survey on Patient Safety Culture User s Guide. Westat Rockville. 

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