Ambulatory Surgery Center Survey on Patient Safety Culture Database

Ambulatory surgery centers (ASCs) are a fast-growing health care setting, demonstrating tremendous growth both in the volume and complexity of procedures being performed. ASCs provide surgical services to patients who are not expected to need an inpatient stay following surgery. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) defines ASCs as distinct entities that operate exclusively to provide surgical services to patients who do not require hospitalization and are not expected to need to stay in a surgical facility longer than 24 hours. AHRQ sponsored the development of the ASC SOPS as a new survey in the suite of AHRQ Surveys on Patient Safety Culture. The database will support AHRQ’s goals of promoting improvements in the quality and safety of health care in ASC settings. Like the survey and other toolkit materials, the database results will be made publicly available on AHRQ’s website. Technical assistance is provided by AHRQ through its contractor at no charge to ASCs to facilitate the use of these materials for ASC patient safety and quality improvement. Technical assistance will also be provided to support ASC data submission.

The latest form for Ambulatory Surgery Center Survey on Patient Safety Culture Database expires 2021-09-30 and can be found here.

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