Improving Response Rates and Representation of Hard-to-Reach Groups in Family Experience Surveys.

Most US hospitals conduct patient experience surveys by mail or telephone after discharge to assess patient/family centeredness of care. Pediatric response rates are usually very low, especially for black, Latino, and low-income respondents. We investigated whether day of discharge surveying using t...

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Publicado en:Academic Pediatrics Vol. 19; no. 4; pp. 446 - 454
Autores principales: Quinn, Jessica, Klein, David J., Wagner, Stephanie, Thomson, Cassandra, Wu, Melody, Onorato, Sarah, Toomey, Sara L., Schuster, Mark A., Elliott, Marc N., Zaslavsky, Alan M.
Formato: research tables/charts Journal Article
Publicado: Elsevier B.V. May2019
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          Quinn, Jessica
          Klein, David J.
          Wagner, Stephanie
          Thomson, Cassandra
          Wu, Melody
          Onorato, Sarah
          Toomey, Sara L.
          Schuster, Mark A.
          Elliott, Marc N.
          Zaslavsky, Alan M.
        affil: Division of General Pediatrics, Department of Medicine (SL Toomey, J Quinn, DJ Klein, S Wagner, C Thomson, MWu, S Onorato, and MA Schuster), Boston Children's Hospital
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          Pediatric Care
          Patient Discharge
          Information Technology Utilization
          Family Attitudes
          Quality of Health Care
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          Hospitals, Pediatric United States
          Quasi-Experimental Studies
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          Descriptive Statistics
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          Patient Attitudes
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      ab: Most US hospitals conduct patient experience surveys by mail or telephone after discharge to assess patient/family centeredness of care. Pediatric response rates are usually very low, especially for black, Latino, and low-income respondents. We investigated whether day of discharge surveying using tablets improves response rates and respondent representativeness. This was a quasi-experimental study of parents of patients discharged from 4 units of a children's hospital. Parents were assigned to receive the Child Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (HCAHPS) via an audio-enabled tablet before discharge or via mail at approximately 1 week postdischarge. Intervention and control conditions alternated by week. We compared response rates, child/respondent characteristics, and mean top-box scores between tablet and mail only arms. Administering Child HCAHPS on a tablet was administratively feasible and did not interfere with the discharge process (median completion time, 12.4 minutes). The response rate was 71.1% (424 of 596) for tablet versus 16.3% (96 of 588) for mail only. Although the tablet response rate was higher in every subgroup, tablet respondents were more likely to be fathers (20.4% vs 6.4%; P =.006), more likely to have a high school education or less (17.5% vs 8.4%; P =.002), less likely to be white (56.8% vs 71.9%; P =.006), and more likely to be publicly insured (31.4% vs 19.8%; P =.02). Tablet scores were significantly higher than mail only scores for 3 of 17 measures. The response rate for day of discharge tablet survey administration was >4-fold higher than with single-wave mail-only administration, with greater participation of hard-to-reach groups. These findings suggest tablet administration before discharge shows great promise for real-time feedback and QI and may transform the field of inpatient survey administration.
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