Breaking Narrative Ground: Innovative Methods for Rigorously Eliciting and Assessing Patient Narratives.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To design a methodology for rigorously eliciting narratives about patients' experiences with clinical care that is potentially useful for public reporting and quality improvement.

Data sources/study setting

Two rounds of experimental data (N = 48 each) collected in 2013-2014, using a nationally representative Internet panel.

Study design

Our study (1) articulates and operationalizes criteria for assessing narrative elicitation protocols; (2) establishes a "gold standard" for assessment of such protocols; and (3) creates and tests a protocol for narratives about outpatient treatment experiences.

Data collection/extraction methods

We randomized participants between telephone and web-based modalities and between protocols placed before and after a closed

SUBMITTER: Grob R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4874935 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature