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To assess patients' perceptions of hospital care across the United States and examine whether hospital characteristics and clinical quality performance relate to patient experience.

October 29, 2008New England Journal of Medicine

Patients' Perception of Hospital Care in the United States

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AJAshish K. JhaChandigarh University EOE. John OravStatens Serum Institut JZJie ZhengAdvanced Network and Services (United States)

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Cross-sectional analysis finds higher patient satisfaction correlates with better nurse staffing and clinical quality, indicating patient experience reflects overall healthcare excellence.

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To assess patients' perceptions of hospital care across the United States and examine whether hospital characteristics and clinical quality performance relate to patient experience.
Analyzed national Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (HCAHPS) survey data evaluating multiple domains of patient experience.
Assessed hospital characteristics hypothesized to impact satisfaction, including nurse-to-patient-days ratio, for-profit status, and nonacademic status.
Evaluated the relationship between HCAHPS performance ratings and standard clinical care quality indicators for acute myocardial infarction and pneumonia.
Hospitals demonstrated moderately high satisfaction, with an average of 67.4% of patients definitely recommending the hospital, showing strong internal consistency across experience domains (Cronbach's alpha = 0.94).
Hospitals in the highest quartile of nurse-to-patient-days ratio had significantly higher recommendation rates than those in the lowest quartile (70.2% vs. 63.5%, P<0.001).
Hospitals in the top HCAHPS quartile provided higher clinical care quality than bottom-quartile hospitals for acute myocardial infarction (95.8% vs. 93.1%, P<0.001) and pneumonia (90.5% vs. 88.6%, P<0.001).

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Jha et al. (2008) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a0b2e6f9b4eb2f7ce2e5876 https://doi.org/10.1056/nejmsa0804116

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Cross-sectional analysis finds higher patient satisfaction correlates with better nurse staffing and clinical quality, indicating patient experience reflects overall healthcare excellence.

Patients' Perception of Hospital Care in the United States

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Patients' Perception of Hospital Care in the United States

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