Patients' Experience of Specialty Care Coordination: Survey Development and Validation.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

Specialty care coordination relies on information flowing bidirectionally between all three participants in the "specialty care triad" - patients, primary care providers (PCPs), and specialists. Measures of coordination should strive to account for the perspectives of each. As we previously developed two surveys to measure coordination of specialty care as experienced by PCPs and specialists, this study aimed to develop and evaluate the psychometric properties of a related survey of specialty care coordination as experienced by the patient, thereby completing the suite of surveys among the triad.

Methods

We developed a draft survey based on literature review, patient interviews, adaptation of existing measures, and development of new items. Survey responses were coll

SUBMITTER: Vimalananda VG 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10688916 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature