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NEWS TO KNOW
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Changes Coming to the 2020 AHRQ Patient Safety Survey
The Baptist Health Patient Safety Partnership (BHPSP) is preparing for the 2020 AHRQ
Survey on Patient Safety. For the upcoming year, the survey will be administered from
March 9th -30th, so please mark your calendars! The AHRQ Survey on Patient Safety is
used to raise staff awareness about patient safety, assess patient safety culture to iden-
tify strengths and areas for improvement, examine trends over time, and evaluate the
impact of patient safety initiatives.
For the first time in over 10 years, AHRQ updated the Hospital Survey On Patient Safe-
ty (HSOPS) and is administering it as version 2.0. HSPOS 2.0 was developed by AHRQ
utilizing user and stakeholder suggestions over time. Changes include:
Rewording complex survey items and survey items that were difficult to translate
Adding a “Does not apply or Don’t know” (NA/DK) response option
Shifting to a “Just Culture” framework to assess Response to Error
Revising the staff positions and units/work areas
Reducing the number of survey items from 51 to 40
Reducing the number of negatively worded items
The biggest change forthcoming is the BHPSP will be administering all versions of the
AHRQ survey in both English and Spanish. In prior years, the survey was only adminis-
tered in English to our entire BHSF population; greatly limiting the participation of pri-
marily Spanish-speaking staff and/or significantly impacting data validity due to the
staff members not fully understanding the questions. The BHPSP found that it was
necessary to incorporate the Spanish surveys to be more inclusive and take into con-
sideration those departments with a higher number of primarily Spanish-speaking
staff. With the addition of the Spanish surveys, the BHPSP is expecting to see higher
participation rates and also improved percentages for BHSF overall and individual enti-
ties.
For more detailed information, please click on the following link:
https://www.ahrq.gov/sops/surveys/hospital/index.html
Additional information on the AHRQ Survey on Patient Safety Culture will also be pro-
vided next year by the BHPSP and your respective Risk Management/Patient Safety de-
partments. Article contributed by: Carmen Engracio & Wendy Sanchez, Data Analysts,
BH Patient Safety Partnership
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