Supplemental Item Sets
All SOPS® surveys are composed of standardized questions—referred to as core items—that support the comparability of survey content across users. There are also optional supplemental item sets that users may add to assess content in areas not included in the core questionnaire. For example, a user of the SOPS Hospital Survey may want to ask respondents to comment on their work stress/burnout or answer additional questions about their hospital’s workplace safety.
The following SOPS supplemental item sets are available:
- Hospital Health Information Technology Patient Safety.
- Hospital Value and Efficiency.
- Hospital Workplace Safety.
- Medical Office Diagnostic Safety.
- Medical Office Value and Efficiency.
- Nursing Home Workplace Safety.
Supplemental item sets are typically ordered by composite measures. A composite measure is a grouping of two or more survey items that assess the same area of culture.
Administration Instructions
To submit data from these supplemental item sets to the AHRQ SOPS Databases, and to enable your facility’s data to be compared with the Database, the supplemental item sets should be:
- Administered in their entirety without modifications or deletions:
- No changes to any of the survey item text and response options.
- No reordering of survey items.
- If Hospital Supplemental Item Set:
- Added to the end of the Hospital SOPS, after Section F: Your Hospital and before the Background Questions section.
Be sure to include any introductory text, definitions of terms, subheadings, and instructions in the supplemental items.
If you are including more than one SOPS supplemental item set, the order should be (1) core Hospital Survey followed by (2) Health IT Patient Safety, (3) Workplace Safety, and (4) Value and Efficiency supplemental items.
- Added to the end of the Hospital SOPS, after Section F: Your Hospital and before the Background Questions section.
- If Medical Office Supplemental Item Set:
- Added to the end of the Medical Office SOPS, after Section G: Overall Ratings and before the Background Questions section.
Be sure to include any introductory text, definitions of terms, subheadings, and instructions in the supplemental items.
If you are including both SOPS supplemental item sets, the order should be (1) core Medical Office Survey followed by (2) Diagnostic Safety and (3) Value and Efficiency supplemental items.
- Added to the end of the Medical Office SOPS, after Section G: Overall Ratings and before the Background Questions section.
SOPS Additional Resources
Learn about additional resources for the SOPS Supplemental items including an action planning tool, data entry and analysis tools. Find links to resources that can help to improve safety culture for the SOPS surveys and Frequently Asked Questions.
