What Is New in the 2009 Comparative Database Report?
The Hospital Survey on Patient Safety Culture 2009 Comparative Database Report is an update of the 2008 report, presenting the most current survey data and trending data available. The 2009 report includes 204 hospitals that submitted data to the comparative database more than once, which provides substantially more data to analyze trends in patient safety culture over time. On average, hospitals show small increases in the patient safety culture composites and survey items over time. The average increase in composite scores across the 204 trending hospitals is 2 percent (ranging from 1 percent to 3 percent). In addition to being an update of the 2008 report, the 2009 report contains several new types of data not previously reported. Chapter 7 presents quantitative and qualitative data on changes in patient safety culture over time. The quantitative data include questionnaire data on actions taken by the 2009 trending hospitals to improve their patient safety culture and correlations b
