Table 2.

Percentage of Skills or Tools Used by Patient Safety Improvement Corps (PSIC) Trainees at 1 and 2 Years Posttraining, for the First and Second Year Trainees

	Percent Saying Used 1 Year After Training		Percent Saying Used 2 Years After Training*
Tool or Skill	Year 1 (n=38)	Year 2 (n=58)	Ever Used (n=25)	Currently Use (n=25)
Risk assessment
Root cause analysis	79	78	76	68
Health care failure mode and effect analysis	58	48	76	40
Probabilistic risk assessment	13	14	32	12
VA's Safety Assessment Code	42	29	40	24
Measurement tools
Patient safety culture survey and tools	29**	57**	56	40
Patient safety indicators	42	33	64	52
Analysis of patient safety data	42	31	60	60
Reporting of adverse events and near misses	79**	55**	72	72
Safety management tools
Human factors engineering	71	81	72	60
Tools to identify high-alert medications	50	34	48	24
Tools to assess patient safety business case	18**	48**	48	8
Tools to evaluate patient safety programs	21	26	40	28

^*Responses from the first year PSIC trainings in 2-year posttraining update.

^**Year-to-year differences statistically significant at the p<.05 level.