Reliability of hospital scores for the Cancer Patient Experience Survey: analysis of publicly reported patient survey data.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To assess the degree to which variations in publicly reported hospital scores arising from the English Cancer Patient Experience Survey (CPES) are subject to chance.

Design

Secondary analysis of publically reported data.

Setting

English National Health Service hospitals.

Participants

72 756 patients who were recently treated for cancer in one of 146 hospitals and responded to the 2016 English CPES.

Main outcome measures

Spearman-Brown reliability of hospital scores on 51 evaluative questions regarding cancer care.

Results

Hospitals varied in respondent sample size with a median hospital sample size of 419 responses (range 31-1972). There were some hospitals with generally highly reliable scores across most questions, whereas other hospi

SUBMITTER: Abel GA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6661614 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature