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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/sops/events/webinar/01-SOPS_101_Webcast-INTRO.pdf
February 19, 2020 - Understanding SOPS Surveys: A Primer for New Users (Webcast) - Introduction
Understanding SOPS Surveys … Senior Study Director
User Network for the AHRQ Surveys on Patient Safety Culture (SOPS)
Westat
Theresa … Senior Study Director,
User Network for the AHRQ Surveys on Patient Safety Culture (SOPS)
Westat
Naomi … Yount, Ph.D., (Moderator)
Senior Study Director,
User Network for the AHRQ Surveys on Patient Safety … Westat
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Agenda
• Overview of AHRQ’s Patient Safety Priorities and Programs
• Overview of the SOPS Surveys
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/sops/events/webinar/sops-101-webcast-intro.pdf
January 12, 2022 - Understanding SOPS® Surveys: A Primer for New Users - Intro
Understanding SOPS® Surveys:
A Primer … Senior Study Director
User Network for the AHRQ Surveys on Patient Safety Culture (SOPS)
Westat
Theresa … Senior Study Director
User Network for the AHRQ Surveys on Patient Safety Culture (SOPS)
Westat
Joann … (Moderator)
Project Director
User Network for the AHRQ Surveys on Patient Safety Culture (SOPS)
Westat … 4
Agenda
• AHRQ SOPS Program
• SOPS Surveys
• SOPS Databases
• SOPS Resources
• Q&A
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/cahps/news-and-events/events/20150917/introducing_the_new_cahps_c&g_survey3.0.pdf
September 01, 2015 - Respondents to the 6-Month Survey were
much more likely to have had only one visit compared to those … Respondents to the 6-
Month Survey were twice as likely to not have had one of these tests. … The 6-Month Survey, about 13% of
respondents say that they had no test ordered for them. … Is the
English version of the survey being used for collecting data from Asian respondents? … So there’s no reason to think that, I mean the whole point of anchoring this
survey respondent on the
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/sops/databases/hospital/2024-hospital-workplace-safety-summary.pdf
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Findings from the 2024 Surveys … Lowest
Verbal Aggression
45% of respondents disagreed that
"In this unit there is a prob lem with … Action planning for patient safety improvement
The Action Planning Tool for the AHRQ Surveys on Patient … www.ahrq.gov/sops/surveys/hospital/supplemental-items/workplace-safety
For more information on SOPS Hospital … To view the full report:
AHRQ Publication No. 25-0013
November 2024
https://www.ahrq.gov/sops/surveys
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www.ahrq.gov/cahps/surveys-guidance/item-sets/mobility/index.html
February 01, 2021 - Supplemental items for people with mobility impairments are available for two CAHPS surveys:
Health … This approach reduces the cognitive burden on respondents. … Survey sponsors can then compare survey results for respondents with and without mobility impairments … improvement teams, and administrators:
To identify the ways in which the experiences and perceptions of respondents … report the standard CAHPS composites measures for two separate groups:
The general population of respondents
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/quality-resources/tools/chtoolbx/bethellscreener.pdf
February 01, 2002 - All
surveys were collected in English only using the same
survey instrument and administration protocol … Summary of Characteristics of Child Respondents and Survey Administration Mode
National Sample
Statewide … RESULTS
Survey Respondents
The 3 study samples represent a total of 26 062 cases. … After removing surveys in which it ap-
peared that respondents may have mistakenly answered
for more … Respondents in the Medicaid man-
aged care and SSI samples completed the mail version of
the survey 80%
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/sops/events/webinar/sops-asc-webcast-transcript-non-ad.pdf
February 01, 2019 - Famolaro, Slide 21
On average, across pilot sites, 88% of respondents reported always or most of the … Famolaro, Slide 22
Then on average across pilot sites, 87% of respondents gave their ASC an overall … Famolaro, Slide 30
One way that you can easily enter your respondent data and automatically calculate … I just want to specifically
stress the SOPS surveys are trademarked by AHRQ and so the survey items … Again, the SOPS ASC survey is really meant for
outside or its separate Ambulatory Surgery Center surveys
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/sops/quality-patient-safety/patientsafetyculture/hospital/sops-hsops-2-translation-guidelines.pdf
August 01, 2023 - 2.0
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)
Surveys on Patient Safety Culture™ (SOPS®) … The reason is that in the United States,
some respondents do not know what patient safety culture means … If you think respondents in your country understand the term “patient
safety culture,” you may leave … in translating one of the SOPS Surveys. … The Spanish translations on the AHRQ SOPS website were designed for Spanish-speaking
respondents working
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/cahps/news-and-events/events/webinars/02-listening-voice-of-patient-webcast-ginsberg.pdf
June 02, 2025 - Listening to the Voice of the Patient: Using Multiple Feedback Methods to Complement CAHPS Survey Data … • AHRQ’s CAHPS program has advanced the science of patient experience:
Validated surveys for high-stakes … There
are many ways to gather information from patients:
• Quantitative Methods:
► CAHPS surveys, … proprietary surveys, rapid-cycle surveys
• Qualitative Methods:
► Patient narratives, complaints, focus … ► CAHPS survey development starts with asking patients or consumers about
what’s important to measure
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www.ahrq.gov/cahps/about-cahps/contact-us/index.html
April 01, 2024 - Contact CAHPS Technical Assistance
CAHPS ® Surveys
Contact the CAHPS Help Line with questions … about the development, testing, and administration of CAHPS surveys or their use in public reports and … CAHPSDatabase@westat.com
1-888-808-7108
Surveys Implemented by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid … Services (CMS)
CMS implements several CAHPS surveys. … ichcahps@rti.org
1–866–245–8083
Medicare Advantage and Prescription Drug Plan CAHPS Survey
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/sops/surveys/2024-sops-deidentified-data-research-abstract-form.docx
January 01, 2024 - Abstract Form
Instructions
Please use this form to describe the research for which you are requesting AHRQ Surveys … Hypotheses
Methodology
[Specify measures and proposed analyses, including level of analysis, i.e., respondent-level … Survey
SOPS Database Report Year
Dates of Survey Data Collection
Number of Sites
Number of Respondents … Pharmacy
2019
Apr. 2014 – Sept. 2018
331
2,157
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Supplemental Item Set Datasets
Users of SOPS surveys … of Respondents
Check Dataset Requesting
Hospital
Health Information Technology Patient
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/cahps/news-and-events/events/webinars/invitation-messages-ahrq-cahps-program.pdf
June 02, 2025 - Developing Invitation Messages that Increase Survey Response Rates - Ginsberg
AHRQ’S CAHPS® PROGRAM … : Patient Focus
• CAHPS surveys are the gold standard for patient experience
measurement … • Surveys are developed using standardized methodology and
research findings.
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Goal of Survey … Administration
Survey responsiveness
Survey representativeness
Many factors can influence survey … : Patient Focus
Goal of Survey Administration
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/cahps/news-and-events/events/webinars/cahps-ch-hospital-webcast-122223-martino.pdf
January 01, 2023 - CAHPS Child Hospital Survey-Using Data and New Narrative Items - The Child HCAHPS Narrative Item Set … Steven Martino, PhD
Senior Behavioral Scientist
RAND
Why Gather Patient Narratives on a CAHPS Survey … in describing
what mattered most in their care experience
• Narratives gathered via standardized surveys … , CAHPS Health Plan Survey, and now Child HCAHPS
42
Child HCAHPS Narrative Item Set
1. … standard open-
ended question (n = 548) 44
Key Findings from Evaluation Study
• Median time for respondents
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/cahps/news-and-events/events/webinars/cahps-rr-webcast-011124-brown.pdf
January 01, 2000 - in Survey Response Rates
Julie Brown
Senior Survey Researcher
RAND Corporation, Santa Monica, CA … effect on public opinion surveys and national household
surveys
• Surveys related to health care ( … including patient surveys) are also
affected
13
Historic Response Rates: National Surveys
0%
10% … • Privacy concerns
• Frequency of survey
• Timing of survey
• Survey length
• Clarity of survey questions … Response Rates: National Surveys
Historic Response Rates: CAHPS Surveys
Challenges to Obtaining High
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www.ahrq.gov/sops/databases/hospital/index.html
November 01, 2024 - SOPS Hospital Database
AHRQ established the Surveys on Patient Safety Culture ® (SOPS ® ) … Participation in the SOPS Databases is free and open to users of the surveys to voluntarily submit their … 1 MB)—Presents data from 47 U.S. hospitals that administered and submitted data for more than 4,000 respondents … respondents. … The report consists of a narrative description of the findings and appendixes, presenting data by respondent
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www.ahrq.gov/cahps/surveys-guidance/develop-outpatient-mental-health-surveys.html
August 01, 2024 - Development of the CAHPS Outpatient Mental Health Survey
In 2016, the CAHPS research team began … developing a new survey of patient experience with mental health care provided in outpatient settings … The goal of this survey was to replace the Experience of Care and Health Outcomes (ECHO) Survey and respond … Key Steps in the Survey Development Process Initial gathering of information. … with a revised questionnaire.
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www.ahrq.gov/cahps/news-and-events/podcasts/cahps-surveys-podcast.html
March 01, 2016 - Do patients' expectations affect how they respond to CAHPS survey questions about their providers? … Okay, but it does seem that what patients might expect to happen could affect how they respond to the survey … Rebecca Anhang-Price: Actually, the evidence shows that survey length has very little effect on response … communicate, so the CAHPS team is looking into how to leverage that while maintaining high standards of survey … Our 20 years of experience have led to a scientifically sound survey process and some of the best outcome
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/sops/events/webinar/sops-asc-webcast-transcript-ad.pdf
February 01, 2019 - Famolaro, Slide 22
Then on average across pilot sites, 87% of respondents gave their ASC an overall … Finally, you can see that 73% of respondents responded positively that immediately after procedures, … Famolaro, Slide 30
One way that you can easily enter your respondent data and automatically calculate … I just want to specifically
stress the SOPS surveys are trademarked by AHRQ and so the survey items … Again, the SOPS ASC survey is really meant for
outside or its separate Ambulatory Surgery Center surveys
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/sops/events/webinar/best-practices-survey-administration-webcast-intro.pdf
January 24, 2024 - Best Practices for Administering SOPS® Surveys Users (Webcast): Introduction
Best Practices for Administering … SOPS® Surveys
Webcast
January 24, 2024
1:00-2:00 PM ET
Webcast Technical Info
• Audio issues … Ph.D.,
Project Director, User Network for CAHPS and SOPS
Westat Vice President
3
Agenda
• AHRQ’s Surveys … on Patient Safety Culture® (SOPS®) Program
• Best Practices for Administering SOPS Surveys
► Action … SOPS Resources
• Submitting to the SOPS Databases
• Q&A
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Best Practices for Administering SOPS® Surveys
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/sops/databases/pharmacy/2015-report-part-1.pdf
January 01, 2015 - Some community pharmacies used a
paper-only survey and others used Web-only surveys. … 1,603
Number of surveys administered 2,834
Overall response rate 57%
Average number of respondents … Results
Common complaints among survey respondents are that they never get any feedback about
survey … It excludes surveys that were
returned blank on all nondemographic survey items or deleted during data … cleaning, but includes
surveys where at least one nondemographic survey item was answered.