Patient-Reported Experiences of Dialysis Care Within a National Pay-for-Performance System.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Medicare's End-Stage Renal Disease Quality Incentive Program incorporates measures of perceived value into reimbursement calculations. In 2016, patient experience became a clinical measure in the Quality Incentive Program scoring system. Dialysis facility performance in patient experience measures has not been studied at the national level to date.

Objective

To examine associations among dialysis facility performance with patient experience measures and patient, facility, and geographic characteristics.

Design

In this cross-sectional analysis, patients from a national end-stage renal disease registry receiving in-center hemodialysis in the United States on December 31, 2014, were linked with dialysis facility scores on the In-Center Hemodialysis Consumer As

SUBMITTER: Brady BM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6233760 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature