Meeting
Abstract Number: 238
Hospital Medicine 2016, March 6-9, San Diego, Calif.
Background: Hospitals across the country struggle with improving patient experience and there is limited data on factors that drive positive or negative scores on the Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (HCAPHS) survey. We sought to better understand which predictors may lead to a top box score. Methods: Administrative and clinical data were […]
Abstract Number: 257
Hospital Medicine 2016, March 6-9, San Diego, Calif.
Background: The overall national patient satisfaction scores have improved since the HCAHPS reporting began. However, it is unknown whether the improvement trends are different between teaching and non-teaching hospitals. Therefore, our objective was to compare long-term changes in patient satisfaction between teaching and non-teaching hospitals. Methods: We used three datasets; HCAHPS data (2008 […]
Abstract Number: 268
Hospital Medicine 2016, March 6-9, San Diego, Calif.
Background: : Low patient satisfaction can result in financial loss for hospitals, and potentially for individual physicians or groups and patient satisfaction is known to be lower on academic services.1 Increasingly, Medicare funds will be withheld from hospitals for underperformance in patient satisfaction due to Value Based Purchasing (VBP). We identified a low performing, academic […]