Hospital Survey on Patient Safety Culture National Project
in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

 

It is important for SPSC to quantify the patient safety culture of health care organizations within Saudi Arabia to improve patient safety. This will be accomplished by assessing the healthcare organizations’ existing patient safety culture through identifying the priority areas to improve patient safety.
SPSC goal with this initiative is to apply the AHRQ's hospital survey on patient safety culture, which is a highly reliable resource that can provide a detailed analysis of patient safety culture and is a validated survey that is being widely used to assess safety culture and is now internationally used in 93 countries around the world.
SPSC launched the AHRQ Hospital Survey on Patient Safety Culture (Pilot Survey) through a survey link in July 2017, the 2nd cycle in April 2019, the 3rd cycle was launched in January 2021, and the 4th cycle launched in January 2022.

A.Survey description:
The Hospital Survey on Patient Safety Culture V2 includes a total of 32 items through 10 composites, will take approximately 10-15 minutes to complete, and can be completed by all types of hospital staff categories including housekeeping, security, nurses and physicians.
 
B.SPSC national database:
SPSC established the Hospital (SOPS) database as a central repository for survey data from the Hospital SOPS. SPSC will produce database reports, which aggregate data from hundreds of hospitals in Saudi Arabia that have voluntarily submitted their data to the database. The database serves as an important resource for patient safety culture and results can be used by survey users, SPSC, and other interested organizations. ​​


C.Safety culture surveys can be used to:

 1- Raise staff awareness about patient safety as a national theme.

 2- Diagnose and assess the current status of patient safety culture.

 3- Identify strengths and areas for patient safety culture improvement.

 4- Examine trends in patient safety culture change over time.

 5- Evaluate the cultural impact of patient safety initiatives and interventions.

 6- Conduct internal and external comparisons through the permitted use of SPSC-database for HSPSC.

In addition to what mention above, participation in SPSC national project (AHRQ- hospital survey on patient safety culture) will enable you to: 

 7-To have a dedicated account per hospital at the survey portal.
 8-Use official AHRQ dual languages survey (Arabic & English)
 9-The survey has a friendly access through the website and mobile.
10-Data cleaning, verification, and analysis of all survey components.
11-Holistic facility report with a comparative result to a national database.
12-Summary report for strengths and areas for improvement
13-Assigned help disk from SPSC for continuous follow-up and assistance
14-Have real-time monitoring and follow-up feature to monitor the progress of the survey in the hospital by the survey leader.
15-Obtain electronic survey link and barcode dedicated to each participated hospital.​
16-Obtain the survey registration user-guide.
17-Access to executive annual report for each cycle.
18-Ability to benchmark your results with the national results and other similar entities all over the Kingdom​.
19-Ability to retrieve previous reports (within the same platform)
20-Ability to access the national recommendations. 

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Project name:

Hospital Survey on Patient Safety Culture National project

Aim:

To establish and measure the perceived culture of safety within hospitals settings

Used tool:

AHRQ Hospital Survey on Patient Safety Culture™

Languages:

English & Arabic

Used Version:

V2

SPSC project status:

Active

SPSC Database status:

Active

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Join us now for 2022 cycle through this link:

https://portal.spsc.gov.sa/


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