Development of a new patient-based measure of pediatric ambulatory care.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

In 1995, the Agency for Health Care Policy and Research initiated the Consumer Assessments of Healthcare Providers and Systems (CAHPS) project to develop and evaluate survey protocols for collecting reliable and valid assessments of health care from consumers. CAHPS surveys are used throughout the United States for evaluating ambulatory and hospital care experiences, including a version for assessing pediatric ambulatory care; however, pediatric experts thought that the existing pediatric instruments did not adequately assess developmental and preventive care. The objective of this study was to develop and test an Ambulatory Pediatric CAHPS survey that focuses on clinicians and groups and includes measures of developmental and preventive care.

Methods

To develop th

SUBMITTER: Gallagher P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5443558 | biostudies-literature | 2009 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature