The GP Patient Survey for use in primary care in the National Health Service in the UK--development and psychometric characteristics.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The UK National GP Patient Survey is one of the largest ever survey programmes of patients registered to receive primary health care, inviting five million respondents to report their experience of NHS primary healthcare. The third such annual survey (2008/9) involved the development of a new survey instrument. We describe the process of that development, and the findings of an extensive pilot survey in UK primary healthcare.

Methods

The survey was developed following recognised guidelines and involved expert and stakeholder advice, cognitive testing of early versions of the survey instrument, and piloting of the questionnaire in a cross sectional pilot survey of 1,500 randomly selected individuals from the UK electoral register with two reminders to non-responden

SUBMITTER: Campbell J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC2736918 | biostudies-literature | 2009 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature