SOPS Medical Office Database
AHRQ has established the Surveys on Patient Safety Culture® (SOPS®) Medical Office Database as a central repository for survey data from medical offices that have administered the AHRQ patient safety culture survey instrument and choose to submit their survey data to the Medical Office SOPS database. The database serves as an important resource for patient safety culture improvement.
Participation is free and open to all SOPS Medical Office 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 Medical Office Database contains data voluntarily submitted by participating medical offices and is not representative of all U.S. medical offices.
- Participating in the SOPS Medical Office Database—The next data submission will be September 2-19, 2025, for medical offices interested in submitting data from the:
- Using the Data for Research—Provides information and application instructions for researchers interested in obtaining de-identified data files from the database to conduct research.
SOPS Medical Office Current Database Report Results
2024 Medical Office Database Report (PDF, 3 MB); Overview (PDF, 1.3 MB); Appendixes (PDF, 1.4 MB)—The current AHRQ Medical Office Survey on Patient Safety Culture User Database Report presents results from 1,164 U.S. medical offices. The 2024 user data report consists of a narrative description of the findings and two appendixes, presenting data by medical office characteristics (number of providers, single specialty vs. multispecialty, primary care specialty, specific specialty, ownership, and geographic region) and respondent characteristics (staff position and tenure in medical office).
SOPS Medical Office Survey Supplemental Items Current Results
2024 Results for the AHRQ SOPS Diagnostic Safety Supplemental Item Set for Medical Offices (PDF, 1.6 MB); Executive Summary (PDF, 1.2 MB)—Results for the Medical Office Diagnostic Safety Supplemental Item Set include data submitted to the 2024 Medical Office Database for a total of over 700 providers and staff in 102 medical offices.
Results From the 2014 Pilot Study of the AHRQ SOPS Value and Efficiency Supplemental Item Set for the Medical Office Survey (PDF, 1 MB)—Presents data from 96 medical offices that administered and submitted data for more than 1,400 medical office staff in 2014. The report consists of a narrative description of the findings and an appendix explaining calculations.
