The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) has released the Hospital Survey on Patient Safety Culture: 2011 User Comparative Database Report. Based on data from 1,032 U.S. hospitals, the report provides results that hospitals can use as one basis for comparison in their efforts to establish, improve, and maintain a culture of patient safety.

The 2011 report also presents results showing change over time for 512 hospitals that submitted data more than once.

The report presents data by hospital characteristics and respondent characteristics for the database hospitals overall, and separately for the 512 trending hospitals.

The main report presents statistics (averages, standard deviations, minimum and maximum scores and percentiles) on the patient-safety culture areas or composites assessed in the survey, as well as the survey items.

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