SOPS Ambulatory Surgery Center Database
AHRQ has established the AHRQ Surveys on Patient Safety Culture® (SOPS®) Ambulatory Surgery Center Database as a central repository for survey data from ambulatory surgery centers (ASCs) that have administered the AHRQ patient safety culture survey instrument and choose to submit their survey data to the AHRQ SOPS Ambulatory Surgery Center Database. The database serves as an important resource for patient safety culture improvement.
Participation is free and open to all SOPS ASC Survey users, provided the questionnaires are administered in a manner consistent with SOPS guidance and survey data are submitted according to SOPS specifications. The SOPS ASC Database contains data voluntarily submitted by participating ASCs and is not representative of all U.S. ASCs.
- Participating in the SOPS ASC Database—The next data submission will be June 2-20, 2025, for ASCs interested in submitting data from the:
- Using the Data for Research—Provides information and application instructions for researchers interested in obtaining deidentified data files from the database to conduct research.
SOPS ASC Survey Database Report Current Results
2023 ASC Database Report (PDF, 7 MB); Executive Summary (PDF, 11 MB); Appendixes (PDF, 776 KB)—Includes data from 243 participating ASCs that administered the survey and submitted data. The report consists of a narrative description that details the findings, as well as two appendixes—presenting data by facility characteristics (number of operating/procedure rooms and geographic region) and respondent characteristics (staff position and hours worked per week).
