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1 to 4 of 4 Research Studies DisplayedElliott MN, Cohea CW, Lehrman WG
Accelerating improvement and narrowing gaps: trends in patients' experiences with hospital care reflected in HCAHPS public reporting.
The researchers describe the experiences of over 4 million patients discharged from hospitals that participated in the second and fifth years of Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (HCAHPS) public reporting and assess the changes in HCAHPS scores across different types of hospital and patient groups. They found that HCAHPS scores increased by 2.8 percentage points from 2008 to 2011 in the most positive response category.
AHRQ-funded; HS016978.
Citation: Elliott MN, Cohea CW, Lehrman WG .
Accelerating improvement and narrowing gaps: trends in patients' experiences with hospital care reflected in HCAHPS public reporting.
Health Serv Res 2015 Dec;50(6):1850-67. doi: 10.1111/1475-6773.12305..
Keywords: Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (CAHPS), Hospitals, Quality of Care, Public Reporting
Aboumatar HJ, Chang BH, Danaf J
Promising practices for achieving patient-centered hospital care: a national study of high-performing US hospitals.
The researchers conducted a national study of hospitals that achieved the highest performance on Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems HCAHPS to identify promising practices for improving patient-centeredness, common challenges met, and how those were addressed. They found that high-performing hospitals used a set of patient-centered care processes that involved both leaders and clinicians in ensuring that patient needs and preferences are addressed.
AHRQ-funded; HS021921.
Citation: Aboumatar HJ, Chang BH, Danaf J .
Promising practices for achieving patient-centered hospital care: a national study of high-performing US hospitals.
Med Care 2015 Sep;53(9):758-67. doi: 10.1097/mlr.0000000000000396..
Keywords: Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (CAHPS), Hospitals, Patient Experience, Quality of Care, Patient-Centered Outcomes Research
Toomey SL, Zaslavsky AM, Elliott MN
The development of a pediatric inpatient experience of care measure: Child HCAHPS.
This article describes the development of Child Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (HCAHPS), which included a national field test with 69 hospitals in 34 States, psychometric analysis, and end-user testing of the final survey. The final Child HCAHPS instrument has 62 items, including 39 patient experience items, 10 screeners, 12 demographic/descriptive items and 1 open-ended item.
AHRQ-funded; HS020513.
Citation: Toomey SL, Zaslavsky AM, Elliott MN .
The development of a pediatric inpatient experience of care measure: Child HCAHPS.
Pediatrics 2015 Aug;136(2):360-9. doi: 10.1542/peds.2015-0966..
Keywords: Children/Adolescents, Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (CAHPS), Hospitals, Inpatient Care, Patient Experience, Quality of Care
Thorpe CT, Johnson H, Dopp AL
Medication oversupply in patients with diabetes.
This article describes the development of Child Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (HCAHPS), which included a national field test with 69 hospitals in 34 States, psychometric analysis, and end-user testing of the final survey. The final Child HCAHPS instrument has 62 items, including 39 patient experience items, 10 screeners, 12 demographic/descriptive items and 1 open-ended item.
AHRQ-funded; HS000083; HS018368; HS017646.
Citation: Thorpe CT, Johnson H, Dopp AL .
Medication oversupply in patients with diabetes.
Res Social Adm Pharm 2015 May-Jun;11(3):382-400. doi: 10.1016/j.sapharm.2014.09.002..
Keywords: Medication, Diabetes, Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (CAHPS), Children/Adolescents, Hospitals