Validation of a 5-Item Tool to Measure Patient Assessment of Clinician Compassion in Hospitals.

ABSTRACT:

Background

We previously validated a 5-item compassion measure to assess patient experience of clinician compassion in the outpatient setting. However, currently, there is no validated and feasible method for health care systems to measure patient experience of clinician compassion in the inpatient setting across multiple hospitals.

Objective

To test if the 5-item compassion measure can validly and distinctly measure patient assessment of physician and nurse compassion in the inpatient setting.

Design

Cross-sectional study between July 1 and July 31, 2020, in a US health care network of 91 community hospitals across 16 states consisting of approximately 15,000 beds.

Patients

Adult patients who had an inpatient hospital stay and completed the Hospital Consumer A

SUBMITTER: Roberts BW 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8034051 | biostudies-literature | 2022 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature