Measuring nonspecific factors in treatment: item banks that assess the healthcare experience and attitudes from the patient's perspective.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

Nonspecific factors that accompany healthcare treatments, such as patients' attitudes and expectations, are important parts of the experience of care and can influence outcomes. However, no precise, concise, and generalizable instruments to measure these factors exist. We report on the development and calibration of new item banks, titled the Healing Encounters and Attitudes Lists (HEAL), that assess nonspecific factors across a broad range of treatments and conditions.

Methods

The instrument development methodology of the Patient-Reported Outcomes Measurement Information System (PROMIS(®)) was used. Patient focus groups and clinician interviews informed our HEAL conceptual model. Literature searches of eight databases yielded over 500 instruments and resulted in an

SUBMITTER: Greco CM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4865446 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature