CAHPS Research Projects Span Multiple Topics | cahps.ahrq.gov

CAHPS Research Projects Span Multiple Topics | cahps.ahrq.gov

CAHPS Research Projects Span Multiple Topics

For 20 years, AHRQ’s CAHPS Consortium has served as the “R&D engine” for the CAHPS initiative, which has led to the development and use of patient experience of care surveys in over a dozen settings of care. Currently, CAHPS researchers are involved in a variety of studies to:

• Identify ways to improve the usefulness and practicality of the surveys.
• Develop better ways to provide consumers with useful information about patient experience and other aspects of health care quality.
• Assess and support the use of CAHPS surveys to improve patient experience.

To keep CAHPS survey users, researchers, and others up-to-date on the work of the CAHPS Consortium, AHRQ has published the following summaries of ongoing research projects:

• The Maintenance and Updating of CAHPS Survey Instruments ( PDF [  - 169.29 KB] )
• Improving the Efficiency of CAHPS Survey Administration PDF [  - 185.56 KB]
• Alignment of CAHPS Ambulatory Care Surveys ( PDF [  - 171.82 KB] )
• A Scientific Approach to Eliciting Patient Narratives ( PDF [  - 177.71 KB] )
• Reporting Patient Narratives with Standardized Measures of Quality ( PDF [  - 166.02 KB] )
• Reporting Summary Scores for CAHPS and Other Measures of Quality ( PDF [  - 162.62 KB] )
• The CAHPS Ambulatory Care Improvement Guide ( PDF [  - 156.45 KB] )
• Impact of Patient-Centered Medical Home Transformation on Patient Experience  PDF [  - 166.95 KB] )
• Using Patient Experience Information in Hospitals:  A Survey of Hospital Quality Leaders ( PDF [  - 160.83 KB] )
• Effect of a Nurse Care Coordination Program on Quality of Care ( PDF [  - 152.07 KB] )