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www.ahrq.gov/cahps/surveys-guidance/cancer/develop-cancer-surveys.html
March 01, 2017 - Development of the CAHPS Cancer Care Survey
The CAHPS ® Cancer Care Survey was developed and … made several revisions to the survey, in part to make it more consistent with the CAHPS Clinician & … Group Survey. … Based on analyses of the field test results and input from the CAHPS Consortium, the survey was finalized … and approved by AHRQ for the CAHPS trademark in 2016.
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/cahps/news-and-events/events/20160413/edgman-levitan-closing.pdf
March 15, 2016 - Strategies for Improving CAHPS Health Plan Survey Scores
Q&A Session
“Strategies for Improving CAHPS … Health Plan Survey Scores”
A Webcast Presented by the AHRQ CAHPS User Network
March 15, 2016
12: … 00 – 1:00 pm EDT
www.cahps.ahrq.gov
To Ask a Question
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www.cahps.ahrq.gov
CAHPS Ambulatory … •Evaluation Survey
• Please complete the evaluation survey. Your feedback
is important to us. … Ambulatory Care Improvement Guide
CAHPS E-mail Updates
Thank You!
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/cahps/news-and-events/events/20160413/graham-bouldin.pdf
April 13, 2016 - Strategies for Improving CAHPS Health Plan Survey Scores
Health Share of Oregon
CAHPS Improvement … Story
“Strategies for Improving CAHPS Health Plan Survey Scores”
A Webcast Presented by the AHRQ CAHPS … your membership
• Invest in cultural competence among staff
Health Share of Oregon CAHPS
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/cahps/news-and-events/events/20160413/karen-posey.pdf
April 13, 2016 - Strategies for Improving CAHPS Health Plan Survey Scores
Strategies for Improving
CAHPS Health Plan … Survey Scores
A p r i l 1 3 , 2 0 1 6
“Strategies for Improving CAHPS Health Plan Survey Scores … Outside-In
(Insights) Execution
Why Survey? … • CAHPS Proxy mirror
CAHPS
• Gain deeper insight
• Understand member
feedback at a deeper … Health Plan Survey Scores
CareSource
CAHPS Strategies
CAHPS Proxy
Health Partner Insight
Consumer
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www.ahrq.gov/faqs/index.html?page=1
June 12, 2025 - What do CAHPS® surveys measure? … Why use a CAHPS® survey to assess patient experience? … The CAHPS® surveys were developed with scientific rigor. … The CAHPS® Database is the national repository for data from the CAHPS family of surveys. … The CAHPS Database contains respondent-level survey data, characteristics of entities surveyed (e.g.,
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/cahps/news-and-events/events/webinars/invitation-messages-brown.pdf
September 01, 2018 - • Today’s presentations build on prior research
► History of CAHPS research to inform survey wording … and approach to
survey invitations
− Visit the CAHPS bibliography at www.ahrq.gov to find research … findings
► September 2018 AHRQ Research Meeting, “Advances in Survey
Methodology: Maximizing Response … Rates and the Representativeness
of CAHPS® Survey Data”
− Visit the News and Events page at www.ahrq.gov … Internet, Phone, Mail, and Mixed-
Mode Surveys: The Tailored Design Method.
− Fazekas, Z., Wall, M.T
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/cahps/cahps-database/2019_hpchartbook_infographic.pdf
January 01, 2019 - 2019 CAHPS Health Plan Survey Database Chartbook Executive Summary
CAHPS® 2019 Health Plan Survey Database … ®) Health Plan Survey Database. … Medicare
Enrollees
Highest Scoring
Measure
80 percent of CHIP respondents
indicated t hat the … Lowest Scoring
Measure
56 percent of Adult Medicaid
respondents ind icated that they
cou ld always … Health Plan Survey Database:
https://cahpsdatabase.ahrq.gov/HPSurveyGuidance.aspx
AHRQ Pub.
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/cahps/news-and-events/events/20140115_DB/2_Janice_Ricketts_slides_12-28.pdf
January 01, 2014 - Database
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• CAHPS Health Plan Survey Database
– 15 years of data (1998 – 2013)
– Over 5.6 million … respondents
– Adult and Child Medicaid/CHIP, Medicare
• CAHPS Clinician & Group Survey Database … – 3 years of data (2010 – 2012)
– Over 1.5 million respondents
– Adult and Child 12-Month Survey, PCMH … respondents who
chose the most positive score for a given item response scale. … distribution of scores for all response
options and allow users to run custom displays by selected
respondent
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www.ahrq.gov/cahps/surveys-guidance/item-sets/elicitation/development/index.html
July 01, 2023 - Set was designed to enable users of the CAHPS Clinician & Group Survey to elicit a short, coherent story … Survey respondents were invited to answer the open-ended questions after completing the survey. … to information obtained during hour-long interviews with a subsample of 50 survey respondents who were … The additional questions did not exhaust respondents’ enthusiasm for participating in the survey. … Items for adults in English only designed for the CAHPS Clinician & Group Visit Survey 4.0 (beta).
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/cahps/surveys-guidance/cancer/suppl-items-cancer-english-557a.pdf
June 02, 2025 - Items for the CAHPS®
Cancer Care Survey
Population: Adult
Language: English
Users of the CAHPS … CAHPS® Cancer Care Survey Supplemental Items
Population: Adult
11/4/2016 Page 2
Document No. 557a … 1 Never
2 Sometimes
3 Usually
4 Always
After AC2
CAHPS® Cancer Care Survey Supplemental … 1 Yes, definitely
2 Yes, somewhat
3 No
After INF4
CAHPS® Cancer Care Survey Supplemental … http://www.ahrq.gov/cahps
Supplemental Items for the CAHPS® Cancer Care Survey
Topic: Access
Topic
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/cahps/news-and-events/events/webinars/4-2023hcbs-survey-webcast-huben.pdf
June 02, 2025 - Participating in the 2023 CAHPS® Home and Community-Based Services Survey Database: What You Need to … Resources
• AHRQ CAHPS Guidance
• AHRQ Guide to Quality Improvement
• CMS HCBS CAHPS Survey and … Technical Assistance Materials available on
Medicaid.gov
• HCBS CAHPS Survey (English)
• HCBS CAHPS … Technical Assistance, contact HCBSMeasures@Lewin.com
https://www.ahrq.gov/cahps/surveys-guidance/hcbs … Technical Assistance
Helpful Resources
HCBS CAHPS Survey Technical Assistance
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/cahps/cahps-database/2023-child-hcahps-chartbook.pdf
January 01, 2023 - 2023 Child HCAHPS Survey Database Chartbook
The CAHPS® Child Hospital Survey
Database 2023 Chartbook … CAHPS Child Hospital Survey Database 2023 Chartbook 5
Highlights of Respondent Characteristics … CAHPS Child Hospital Survey Database 2023 Chartbook 12
Appendix A
Respondent and Child Demographic … Respondent-level survey results
are calculated across all respondents in the Database, ignoring their … Database 2023 Chartbook C-1
https://www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/cahps/surveys-guidance
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www.ahrq.gov/cahps/surveys-guidance/hp/compare/index.html
March 01, 2016 - Compare Survey Data
The CAHPS Database gathers survey results from Health Plan Survey users across … distribution of scores for all response options and allow users to run custom displays by selected respondent … Participate in the CAHPS Database
All users of the Medicaid Survey, including Medicaid and SCHIP health … plans and State Medicaid agencies, are invited to submit their survey results to the CAHPS Database. … Health Plan Survey
Read About the Survey
Get Survey & Instructions
Compare Survey Data
Improve
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/cahps/surveys-guidance/cancer/suppl-items-cancer-info-english-557-6a.docx
June 02, 2025 - CAHPS Cancer Care Supplemental Items
CAHPS® Cancer Care Survey Supplemental Items: Information from … Providers
Population: Adult
Supplemental Items for the CAHPS® Cancer Care Survey
Topic: Information … from Providers
Population Version: Adult
Language: English
Users of the CAHPS® Cancer Care Survey are … 1|_| Yes
2|_| No If No, go to #28 in core survey
After core question 27
N-INF5. … Document No. 557-6a Page 2
www.ahrq.gov/cahps
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www.ahrq.gov/cahps/news-and-events/events/webinar-070925.html
August 01, 2025 - Participating in the 2024 CAHPS® Home- and Community-Based Services Survey Database: What You Need to … Home and Community-Based Services (HCBS CAHPS) Survey Database, and the HCBS CAHPS Survey. … The HCBS CAHPS Survey Database is a joint project between the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality … (Moderator) Social Science Analyst, CAHPS and Surveys on Patient Safety Culture (SOPS) Programs Center … /embed/hRxfXicPPaU Participating in the 2024 CAHPS® Home and Community-Based Services Survey Database
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/cahps/surveys-guidance/cancer/suppl-items-cancer-access-english-557-1a.docx
June 02, 2025 - CAHPS Cancer Care Supplemental Items
CAHPS® Cancer Care Survey Supplemental Items: Access
Population … : Adult
Supplemental Items for the CAHPS® Cancer Care Survey
Topic: Access
Population Version: … Adult
Language: English
Users of the CAHPS® Cancer Care Survey are free to incorporate supplemental … These supplemental items can be inserted into any of the three versions of the Cancer Care Survey. … Document No. 557-1a Page 2
www.ahrq.gov/cahps
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www.ahrq.gov/cahps/quality-improvement/improvement-guide/5-determining-focus/index.html
February 01, 2020 - Analyze CAHPS Survey Results
5.B. … Because some qualitative methods are easier and less expensive to implement than surveys, they can be … Analyze CAHPS Survey Results
Once you have results from a CAHPS survey in hand, you can start by seeing … First, it calculates the percent of respondents in each of the response categories for a CAHPS composite … To transform the scores, one would first transform the response values at the respondent level from 0
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/cahps/news-and-events/events/webinars/02-listening-voice-of-patient-webcast-ginsberg.pdf
June 02, 2025 - Listening to the Voice of the Patient: Using Multiple Feedback Methods to Complement CAHPS Survey Data … • AHRQ’s CAHPS program has advanced the science of patient experience:
Validated surveys for high-stakes … There
are many ways to gather information from patients:
• Quantitative Methods:
► CAHPS surveys, … proprietary surveys, rapid-cycle surveys
• Qualitative Methods:
► Patient narratives, complaints, focus … ► CAHPS survey development starts with asking patients or consumers about
what’s important to measure
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/cahps/news-and-events/events/webinars/learning_pt_narratives_053123-ginsberg.pdf
June 02, 2025 - survey results
• AHRQ does not mandate the use of CAHPS surveys
► Requirements for using CAHPS surveys … are established by other
organizations
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CAHPS Surveys
• CAHPS surveys measure experience:
► … surveys can be customized with supplemental items
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CAHPS Supplemental Narrative Item Sets
• Narrative … Item Sets (NIS) are a structured series of open-ended
questions that:
► Prompt survey respondents to … ® Program
CAHPS Surveys
CAHPS Supplemental Narrative Item Sets
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www.ahrq.gov/cahps/surveys-guidance/item-sets/elicitation/index.html
August 01, 2024 - Elicitation Protocols—are sets of open-ended questions that prompt survey respondents to tell a clear … surveys. … For providers, narratives can reveal what is driving CAHPS survey scores and what specific processes … Clinician & Group Survey and other outpatient patient experience surveys 4 and then adapted for the … CAHPS and Comments: How Closed-Ended Survey Questions and Narrative Accounts Interact in the Assessment