Health Care Surveys - Standards
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Monday, November 23, 2009

Patient satisfaction in New Zealand.

5 Aug 2009 AIMS: To determine whether the Patient Survey Guidelines developed for district health board (DHBs) in 2000 are being adhered to and what the results of the survey can tell us about patient satisfaction in New Zealand. METHOD: Nationwide patient ... Read more...

The male-female health-survival paradox: a survey and register study of the impact of sex-specific selection and information bias.

17 May 2009 PURPOSE: This study examined whether the health-survival paradox could be due partially to sex-specific selection and information bias in surveys. METHODS: The study is based on the linkage of three population-based surveys of 15,330 Danes aged ... Read more...

Rethinking satisfaction surveys: time to next complaint.

27 Feb 2009 BACKGROUND: Patient satisfaction surveys require considerable time and resources. Instead of only systematically seeking patient's input through standardized satisfaction surveys, it is proposed that insights into the performance of the organization ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Health Care Surveys - Standards'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Patient satisfaction in New Zealand. 5 Aug 2009
• Neutrality and translation problems in measuring patient experience. 30 Jul 2009
• Measuring patient experiences in Europe: what can we learn from the experiences in the USA and England? 30 Jul 2009
• The male-female health-survival paradox: a survey and register study of the impact of sex-specific selection and information bias. 17 May 2009
• Rethinking satisfaction surveys: time to next complaint. 27 Feb 2009
• An examination of the Medicaid undercount in the current population survey: preliminary results from record linking. 26 Jan 2009
• Validation of the Impact of Health Information Technology (I-HIT) Scale: an international collaborative. 30 Dec 2008
• Are accreditation surveys reliable? 30 Dec 2008
• How to improve patient satisfaction when patients are already satisfied: a continuous process-improvement approach. 30 Dec 2008
• Addressing nonresponse bias in postal surveys. 30 Dec 2008
• Planning for health care transitions: results from the 2005-2006 National Survey of Children With Special Health Care Needs. 30 Dec 2008
• Validation and reliability of 2 specialty care satisfaction scales. 3 Dec 2008
• Experiences of interprofessional implementation of a healthcare matrix. 29 Nov 2008
• Making sense of the chaos. The specific aim is to get concrete agreement on the priority areas for quality improvement. 29 Nov 2008
• How reliable are surveys of client satisfaction with healthcare services? Evidence from matched facility and household data in Madagascar. 18 Nov 2008
• Brief scale measuring patient preparedness for hospital discharge to home: Psychometric properties. 30 Oct 2008
• Can you use a sequential sample of patients as a substitute for a full practice audit?: Study of mammography screening rates in 20 family practices in Ontario. 29 Sep 2008
• Design and operation of the National Asthma Survey. 30 Jul 2008
• Context effects in survey ratings of health, symptoms, and satisfaction. 29 Jun 2008
• Can additional patient experience items improve the reliability of and add new domains to the CAHPS hospital survey? Jun 2008

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Technical information about 'Health Care Surveys'

Definition: Statistical measures of utilization and other aspects of the provision of health care services including hospitalization and ambulatory care.

Descriptor UI: D019538

Alternative terms: Health Care Surveys; Care Survey, Health; Care Surveys, Health; Health Care Survey; Survey, Health Care; Surveys, Health Care; Healthcare Surveys; Healthcare Survey; Survey, Healthcare; Surveys, Healthcare; National Hospital Discharge Survey; National Ambulatory Medical Care Survey;

Allowable Qualifiers: classification; economics; history; legislation & jurisprudence; standards; supply & distribution; trends; utilization; statistics & numerical data; ethics; instrumentation; methods;

Tree Number: E05.318.308.335; N03.349.380.210; N05.425.210; N05.715.360.300.387; N06.850.520.308.335;

History Note: 97

Technical Notes: do not confuse with HEALTH SURVEYS: health care surveys are on health services provided, health surveys are on health statist; specify geog if pertinent