Surveys on Patient Safety Culture

Patient safety culture refers to the beliefs, values and norms shared by providers and staff throughout the organization that influence their actions and behaviors. Since 2001, the AHRQ Surveys on Patient Safety Culture® (SOPS®) Program has supported AHRQ's mission by advancing the scientific understanding of patient safety culture in healthcare settings. The SOPS Program conducts activities to understand, measure, and improve patient safety culture in healthcare settings.

SOPS databases are central repositories for survey data from each of the SOPS surveys and SOPS supplemental items. Participation in the SOPS Databases is free and open to users of the surveys to voluntarily submit their data to the appropriate database. In addition, organizations that administer any of the supplemental items with the companion SOPS survey can also submit data to the appropriate database. Participating organizations receive a customized feedback report with their own results compared with the Database results.
Access information about how to submit data to one of the SOPS Databases and view results from recent SOPS database reports:

• SOPS Hospital Database
• SOPS Medical Office Database
• SOPS Nursing Home Database
• SOPS Community Pharmacy Database
• SOPS Ambulatory Surgery Center Database