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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/cahps/news-and-events/events/webinars/recent-insights-webcast-cleary.pdf
June 02, 2025 - Recent Insights into CAHPS Survey Modes and Response Rates - Cleary
Comparisons of
Electronic and Mail … • How do the characteristics of respondents to web and mail
surveys differ? … Standard mail: Mail questionnaire; mail reminder; second questionnaire
(1176 respondents)
2. … protocol: Mail questionnaire; mail reminder;
second questionnaire (769 respondents)
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Analyses … survey)
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Improving Mail Response Rates
• Factors in mail surveys to consider and evaluate
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www.ahrq.gov/research/findings/final-reports/crcscreeningrpt/crcscreen2a.html
April 01, 2018 - Return to Contents
Step 4: Mail Screening Information and Materials
Description
This step consists … Either a stool test kit or a request card that the patient can mail back to request a kit. … stool test kit request cards for all or some of the patients in the screening program, it periodically mails … delayed in the LVHN mailroom due to temporarily misplacing it prior to actually putting it into the Postal … Service mail.
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June 02, 2025 - only, Telephone only, Standard mixed mode (mail with
telephone follow-up)
• Overall response rate … for both experiments ~20%
►13.7% for mail-only in mode experiment
• Contact information for emergency … Patients randomized within hospital to 1 of 9 survey arms
►Reference arm was standard mixed mode: mail … +phone: 27.3%
►But not significantly higher than mail+phone: 25.5%
• Only arms with telephone follow-up … +telephone arm: fewer mail and telephone
respondents than mail+telephone
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Respondent Characteristics
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/patient-family-engagement/pfeprimarycare/medication-mgmt-common-barriers-card-4x6.pdf
June 02, 2025 - Try to determine and address
the source of the access issue;
suggest mail order options. … Write a longer prescription;
suggest mail order options.
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www.ahrq.gov/cahps/news-and-events/webinar-11124/webcast-questions.html
June 01, 2024 - Do you see a future where survey collection by mail/phone isn’t viable? … Currently mail and phone modes help to maximize response rates. … Administering mixed modes, such as web-mail or web-mail-phone, effectively enables respondents, to a … What evidence-based recommendations should hospitals employ to get better response rates for mail surveys … Survey formatting substantially influences response rates for mail surveys.
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/cahps/about-cahps/research/survey-administration-literature-review.pdf
October 01, 2017 - Key Points: Mail and Phone
• Mail-only surveys achieve higher
response rates than phone-only
surveys … follow-up to the use of regular mail with specialty mail
follow-up (e.g., courier mail, priority mail … Mail with specialty mail follow-up
appears to yield the same or slightly better response rates as mail … and characteristics across Web
and mail surveys. … Comparing response rates from Web and mail surveys: A meta-analysis.
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/cahps/news-and-events/events/webinars/webinar-012220-fry2.pdf
June 02, 2025 - methodology
► Expected number of people who will respond
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Common Data Collection Approaches
Mail … Email/
Web-based
Mixed
mode
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Data Collection Approaches Tested
by the CAHPS Consortium
• Mail … Consortium continues extensive testing
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Data Collection Approaches Yielding
Higher Response Rates
• Mail … • Telephone
• Mixed Mode
► Mail with telephone follow-up
► Notification of web survey with mail
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/cahps/news-and-events/events/webinars/3-case-mix-mode-adjustments-webcast-elliott.pdf
June 02, 2025 - can affect responses in 2 ways:
► Who responds
− E. g., Older respondents more likely to respond by mail … Web-Mail) not on the mode of response (e.g., Web response)
• Not needed when all reporting units use … /Web-Mail (WM) NEMA (reference)
► Phone-Only/Web-Phone (WP) NEMA
► Mail-Phone (MP, formerly known as … “Mixed Mode”)/Web-Mail-Phone (WMP) NEMA
► Web-Mail (WM) EMA
► Web-Phone (WP) EMA
► Web-Mail-Phone (WMP … /WMP NEMA, Web-Mail EMA, Web-
Phone EMA, Web-Mail-Phone EMA) relative to the reference group (Mail-
Only
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/cahps/news-and-events/events/webinars/cahps-emergency-dept-webinar-survey-admin.pdf
June 02, 2025 - We tested:
Mail only
Telephone only
In-person survey distribution in the ED
Email only
… )
Web-Telephone Mode
Web-Mail-Telephone Mode
First CAHPS Survey with recommended web-
based … )
Standard Mixed Mode (Mail-Telephone)
Initial attempt: mailed survey
Phone follow-up starting … )
Web-Mail-Telephone Mode
Initial attempt: emailed survey
Two reminder emails
Mailed survey … ED CAHPS Mail and Web-based Modes, Side-by-Side
ED CAHPS Web Survey Design
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/cahps/news-and-events/events/webinars/addressing-emerging-needs-09132023-hays.pdf
June 02, 2025 - )
• Mail only had the lowest yield for Black, Hispanic, and Multiracial.
• Web-Mail-Phone had the … Survey Administration Protocol Response Rate
Current HCAHPS Modes
Mail only 22%
Phone only 23%
Mail-Phone … 31%
Web-first Modes
Web-Mail 29%
Web-Phone 30%
Web-Mail-Phone 36%
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Exploration of “Easy” (EZ)
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/patient-family-engagement/pfeprimarycare/medicinelist-barriers-postcard-final508.pdf
June 02, 2025 - Try to determine and address the
source of the access issue; suggest
mail order options. … Write prescriptions for a longer
length of time; suggest mail
order options.
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/cahps/news-and-events/events/webinars/cahps-101-webcast-04-fry.pdf
June 02, 2025 - ► Expected number of people who will respond
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Data Collection Approaches
We Have Tested
• Mail … Telephone
• In-person interviews
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Data Collection Approaches Yielding
Higher Response Rates
• Mail … • Telephone
• Mixed Mode
► Mail with telephone follow-up
► Notification of web survey with mail
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/patient-family-engagement/pfeprimarycare/medication-mgmt-common-barriers-full.pdf
June 02, 2025 - Try to determine and address the source of the access
issue; suggest mail order options. … Write a longer prescription; suggest mail order options.
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www.ahrq.gov/research/findings/final-reports/crcscreeningrpt/crcscreenfig1-1.html
April 01, 2018 -
Step 4: Mail …
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June 02, 2025 - response rate to support data use
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www.ahrq.gov/cahps
Data Collection Modes We Have Tested
• Mail … In-person interviews
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www.ahrq.gov/cahps
Modes That Currently Yield Higher Response
Rates
• Mail … • Telephone
• Mixed Mode
Mail with Telephone follow-up
Email with Mail or Telephone follow-up
•
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/sops/quality-patient-safety/patientsafetyculture/sopsvaluewebcast-closing.pdf
June 02, 2025 - Efficiency Supplemental Items for Hospitals and Medical Offices - CLOSING
To Ask a Question
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E-mail … E-mail:
SafetyCultureSurveys@westat.com
Phone:
1-888-324-9749
Website: https://www.ahrq.gov/sops
64 … mailto:SafetyCultureSurveys@westat.com
https://www.ahrq.gov/sops
To Ask a Question
E-mail Updates
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April 01, 2018 - You can mail material to patients of practices with complete data while continuing to obtain and clean … Return to Contents
Step 4: Mail Screening Information and Materials
Description
This step consists … Therefore, although the central entity mails the patient letters (on behalf of the practice), we suggest … Either a stool test kit or a request card that the patient can mail back to request a kit ( Tool 4.b- … for all or some of the patients in the screening program, it should periodically mail kits to patients
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