Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)
Hospital / Medical Office Safety Culture Survey

AHRQ Office, Hospital, and Nursing Home tools

• Tracking patient safety-culture - The AHRQ Safety Culture surveys take six minutes.
• Instant department frequency reports and the twelve safety culture dimensions-dashboards.
• Search your database by department, job position and print results immediately.
  
  Sample Surveys:
  - Nursing Home AHRQ Safety Culture (PDF)
  - Hospital AHRQ Safety Culture (PDF)
  - Medical Office AHRQ Safety Culture (PDF)

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Benefits of electronic data collection
for medical offices, nursing homes and hospital departments (completed by medical staff on-site):

• Work together, from any location. Staff/consultants may login for department reports as data uploads

  Benchmarking your office or hospital with AHRQ’s database

  Instant safety-culture dashboard reports by department and site-wide reports
• Higher response rate than paper or web administrations
• Easier for department managers to self-manage change
• Focus on non-punitive error reporting
• Promote discussion of errors so that lessons can be learned
• Monitor the spread of safety changes by AHRQ’s twelve-dimensions of care
• Make dashboard graphs of multiple time periods at the click of a button
• Data is online and sorts by site/location/floor, job position

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During your AHRQ Hospital and Medical-Center Safety Culture data collection, the dashboard reports will update for instant assessment and learning

Process:

• Staff takes six minutes to answer anonymously at their floor/ unit
• Dashboard reports - As data uploads your results update and are ready to view/ print
• Frequency reports - Printout the 42 item/questions that include frequency, percents, mean score and standard deviation

Granular Dashboard and Frequency Reporting:

Select any AHRQ dimension, data-filter, and click COMPUTE to search your database Search parameters are:

• Multiple time periods (Quarters, Years …)
• Location in your hospital (Acute Care, Behavioral Health, Perioperative Services…)
• Job position (LPN/RN, Attending Staff/Physicians, Administration …)

 

After the survey period, your AHRQ-Rollup-Report includes department tables