Assessment of multi-professional primary healthcare center quality by patients with multimorbidity.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The main aim of this study was to build an item bank for assessing the care quality of multi-professional healthcare centers (MPHCC) from the perspective of patients with multimorbidity. This study was part of the QUALSOPRIM (QUALité des SOins PRIMaires; primary healthcare quality) research project to create a psychometrically robust self-administered questionnaire to assess healthcare quality.

Methods

First, twelve experts built an item bank using data from a previous qualitative work and a systematic literature review. Second, the validity of each item was assessed in a sample of patients. Adult patients with multimorbidity were recruited from six French MPHCC. Items were assessed based on ceiling effects, the level of missing or neutral responses and patient fe

SUBMITTER: Dany A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11337593 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature