Patient Safety Systems Survey

Understanding the systems Oregon healthcare organizations use to respond to medical harm and make care safer

We want to learn from you!

We know that every organization is different—from hospitals, surgical centers, and nursing facilities, to birthing centers and pharmacies—and implementing the patient safety systems needed to respond to medical harm events can be challenging… and that’s why we want to learn from you.

We want to understand what Oregon healthcare organizations have in place for responding to and learning from medical harm through a statewide survey.

Please take a few minutes to tell us about your organization’s patient safety systems. What you, and other healthcare organizations across Oregon, share will help us tailor our resources and offerings to best support your patient safety work.


As you complete this survey, remember that there are no wrong answers!

Survey FAQs

  • You or someone in your organization who has knowledge or understanding of your organization’s policies and processes related to quality and patient safety should complete the survey. You may need to work with colleagues to gather the information needed to answer the survey questions (please see the section below for the question reference guide).

  • We anticipate the survey will take 30 minutes to complete.

  • Nope! You will be given the opportunity to save your work as you go through the survey and come back later, as needed.

  • Yes! We have created a question reference guide with a list of all the questions you will find in the environmental scan (please see below).

  • We’re working to better understand what processes healthcare organizations have in place for responding to and learning from medical harm. Learning more about your organization’s processes will help us tailor our resources and program offerings to best support patient safety work in Oregon.

  • Your responses will not be shared outside of the Oregon Patient Safety Commission (OPSC). Data will be deidentified and shared only in aggregate.

Patient Safety Systems Survey: Question Reference Guide

This Question Reference Guide lists all of the questions you will find in the survey. This document can be used to support information collection and make data entry more efficient for the online survey. Please note: This document is not intended to be used as your survey submission. No scanned or printed forms can be accepted.

Got questions? We’d love to help.

We’re here to answer questions and get you the information you need. Please email us, and we will get back to you as soon as we can.

Who is OPSC?

We are the Oregon Patient Safety Commission (OPSC), and we exist to help build safer care for patients.

As a semi-independent agency of the state of Oregon, we offer patient safety resources and support to ALL Oregonians. Our Early Discussion and Resolution (EDR) process helps any Oregonian who has experienced harm within the healthcare system by connecting them with their healthcare provider so they can speak candidly about what occurred, work toward reconciliation, and contribute to preventing harm from happening to others.