Background: The Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (HCAHPS) survey distributed by The Center for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS) services measures patient perceptions of hospital experience and impacts annual CMS reimbursement. This study focuses on the “Quiet at Night” variable, to identify the top box institutions and identify the key characteristics that enable [...]

Background: While sleep is critical for health and healing, the hospital setting is not conducive to sleep and few efforts have been made to improve the sleeping environment. To date, there have been no efforts to describe the current practices to improve the sleep of hospitalized patients at highly-ranked hospitals. Methods: A multicenter mixed-methods study [...]