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Hospital Survey on Patient Safety Culture

The Hospital Survey on Patient Safety Culture (HSOPS) is a 42-item standardized instrument developed by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) to measure patient safety culture in hospital settings. First released in 2004 and revised in 2018, the HSOPS assesses 12 composite dimensions of safety culture across organizational, unit, and individual levels. It is one of the most frequently used and publicly reported safety culture measures, with data from over 1,000 hospitals contributing to AHRQ's national benchmarking database.

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Hospital Survey on Patient Safety Culture (HSOPS)
Taxonomic method record · process-pipeline / healthcare-management
  • Sorra, J. S., & Dyer, N. (2010). Multilevel analysis of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality Hospital Survey on Patient Safety Culture. BMJ Quality & Safety, 19(5), 413–417. · URL
  • Westat, Inc. (2008). Hospital Survey on Patient Safety Culture 2008: Summary of Results for a Large Convenience Sample. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. · URL
  • Nieva, V. F., & Sorra, J. (2003). Safety culture assessment: a tool for improving patient safety in healthcare organizations. Quality & Safety in Health Care, 12(2), ii17–ii23. · DOI 10.1136/qhc.12.suppl_2.ii17
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