Patients' Perspectives on Determinants Avoidable Hospitalizations: Development and Validation of a Questionnaire.

ABSTRACT: Ambulatory care sensitive conditions (ACSC) can be avoided through effective care in the ambulatory setting. Patients are the most qualified individuals to express the social and individual contexts of their own experience. Thus, understanding why potentially preventable hospitalizations occur is important to develop patient-centred policies or interventions that may reduce them. This study aims to develop and validate a questionnaire to capture the patients' perspective on the causes of the hospitalizations for ACSC. The development of a new questionnaire involved four phases: a literature review, face validity, pre-test, and validation. We conducted a three-step face validity verification to confirm the relevance of the identified determinants and to collect determinants not previously i

SUBMITTER: Sarmento J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8910657 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature