Register Now for AHRQ Webinar on Public Reporting of Patients’ Comments With Quality Measures

AHRQ is hosting a free 1-hour webinar on June 3 at 1 p.m. ET on the use of patient comments in public reports that are designed to inform consumers about health care providers. Researchers will discuss an ongoing AHRQ study of methods for eliciting representative patient comments and reporting those comments in a coherent manner with standardized measures of physician quality, including CAHPS® (Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems) measures of patient experience and clinical measures of patient treatment. Speakers are Steven Martino, Ph.D., behavioral scientist, RAND, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; Rachel Grob, Ph.D., director of national initiatives, University of Wisconsin, Madison; and Mark Schlesinger, Ph.D., professor of health policy, Yale School of Public Health, New Haven, Connecticut. The moderator is Dale Shaller, managing director, CAHPS database, Shaller Consulting Group, Stillwater, Minnesota.

Registration is open.