Table 4.

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

	Percentage of Hospitals Responding “Yes”*
Patient Safety Action	Year 1 Trainees (n=23)**	Year 2 Trainees (n=40)
Modification of processes to review/analyze adverse events or errors	83	73
Promotion of patient safety culture	78	83
Sharing data across organizations to better understand causes of error	52	50
Other changes in review of adverse events	48	48
Other state- or organization-wide initiatives	48	50
New membership in or formation of a patient safety group of stakeholders	35	45
Creation of institutional adverse event reporting system	30	13

^*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.