Table 3.

How the Patient Safety Improvement Corps (PSIC) Training Influenced Patient Safety Actions by States, Reported in 1-Year Follow-up Interviews with the Year 1 and 2 Trainees, 2005 and 2006

	Percentage of States Responding “Yes”*
Patient Safety Action	Year 1 Trainees (n=15)**	Year 2 Trainees (n=18)
Initiation of or influence on regulation(s)/legislation	47	56
Modification of hospital oversight procedures when an adverse event occurs (e.g., change content of Root Cause Analysis [RCA])	47	56
Modification of an existing state reporting system to improve how it captures patient safety issues or how information is reported to others	33	22
New membership in or formation of a patient safety coalition of stakeholders	20	50
Creation of a state-wide reporting system	20	17

^*Entities labeled as Quality Improvement Organizations (QIOs) or “other” were reclassified as either states or hospitals based on their core functions. Counts for hospital and state-specific questions vary depending on the respondent's ability to answer the question.

^**No year-to-year differences presented in this table were found to be statistically significant at the p<.05 level.