-
www.ahrq.gov/topics/patient-experience.html
Topic: Patient Experience
AHRQ's Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems program … measures the patient experience, which includes several aspects of healthcare delivery that patients … Advancing the Impact of Consumer Experience of Care Measurement: What’s Next? … Help Consumers Across Pennsylvania Take an Active Role in Their Health Care
Engaging Patients … Safety Culture® To Improve Quality of Care
What Is Patient Experience?
-
www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/cahps/news-and-events/events/webinars/cahps-ptexp-research-meeting-agenda-2023.pdf
January 01, 2023 - Patient Experience Research Meeting - Agenda
Patient Experience, Patient Safety, and Provider Well-Being … How do these issues relate to assessing and improving patient
experience with care? … experience can
help to improve patient safety and the well-being of the healthcare workforce. … culture and patient experience
• How better communication with patients can improve patient safety … Linking Provider and Staff Perceptions of Patient Safety Culture with Patient
Experience in Hospitals
-
www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/cahps/news-and-events/events/webinars/ipe-large-org-webcast-closing.pdf
June 02, 2025 - Improving Patient Experience in Large Organizations webcast - Closing
CAHPS Improvement Resources … • CAHPS Improvement
Guide
• Research on
improving patient
experience
www.ahrq.gov/cahps/quality-
-
www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/cahps/surveys-guidance/surgical/about/F2CGLizHoyRogerLevine.pdf
June 02, 2025 - Surgical Patient Experience of Care Survey Design Project
Surgical Patient Experience of Surgical Patient … Experience of Care survey? … –
49 surgical patients
•
Heterogeneous with respect to age, gender, type
of surgery, number … Incident study was conducted to
help inform development of CG-CAHPS
–
Interviews conducted with 168 patients … experience of
care survey
-
www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/cahps/news-and-events/events/webinars/ipe-large-org-webcast-skootsky.pdf
March 01, 2021 - Improving Patient Experience in Large Organizations webcast - Skootsky
26
Ambulatory Patient
Experience … Improve the overall patient experience by assigning staff to coordinate patient
care throughout one’ … Experience, Safety, Look and Feel Appearance
• Patient Communication Center (PCC)
• Employee Training … Samuel Skootsky
SSkootsky@mednet.ucla.edu
mailto:SSkootsky@mednet.ucla.edu
Ambulatory Patient Experience … Experience
Focused Quality Improvement Work
Patient-Physician Communication Workshop
ART (Ambulatory
-
www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/cahps/news-and-events/events/webinars/ipe-large-org-webcast-intro.pdf
March 24, 2021 - Improving Patient Experience in Large Organizations webcast - Intro
Improving Patient Experience in … :00 – 3:00 pm ET
Our Focus Today
• Overview of AHRQ’s CAHPS program
• Foundational elements of patient … experience improvement
• Two case studies:
► Improving patient experience with communication about … medications in
Kaiser Permanente hospitals
► Improving patient experience with ambulatory care in
-
www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/cahps/news-and-events/events/webinars/ipe-large-org-webcast-fishkin.pdf
March 24, 2020 - Improving Patient Experience in Large Organizations webcast - Fishkin
Effective Implementation of Patient … , Kaiser Permanente
AHRQ-CAHPS: Improving Patient Experience in Large Organizations
March 24, 2020 … This diagram highlights the specific touchpoints where patients are impacted by the practice while the … Patient
Experience Patient
arrives on
unit
Patient sees “Ask 3”
Document posted on
wall with … Practice Workflow: Discharge
Patient
Experience RN prints discharge
summary
RN closes door to
-
www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/cahps/news-and-events/events/webinars/patient-narratives-webinar-ahrq.pdf
June 02, 2025 - The Power of Patient Stories for Improving the Patient Experience webcast - Ginsberg
WELCOME FROM AHRQ … Caren Ginsberg, PhD
Director, CAHPS & SOPS Programs
Center for Quality Improvement & Patient Safety … AHRQ can not require the use of our tools and
products.
7
CAHPS surveys of patient experience … • Encompasses the range of interactions patients have with the
healthcare system
• Patient experience … set of closed-ended CAHPS survey
questions; and
► Provide value-added information that is helpful patients
-
www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/cahps/news-and-events/events/webinars/patient-narratives-webinar-quality.pdf
June 02, 2025 - The Power of Patient Stories for Improving the Patient Experience webcast - Nembhard
Using Narratives … QI):
process-based, data-driven approach to
systematically improve the ways care is
delivered to patients … experience perturb your organization the most? … negative
situations
Frequent and
useful narrative
comments
Confidence in
understanding of
patients … and
practice
Patient-inspired
behavior
changes
Positive work
experience
- Job satisfaction
-
www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/cahps/news-and-events/events/webinars/patient-narratives-webinar-closing.pdf
June 02, 2025 - The Power of Patient Stories for Improving the Patient Experience webcast - Closing
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
-
www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/cahps/news-and-events/events/webinars/data-analysis-webcast-closing-5.pdf
June 02, 2025 - Improving Patient Experience: Data Analysis Methods webcast - Closing
CAHPS Improvement Resources … • CAHPS Improvement
Guide
• Research on
improving patient
experience
43
CAHPS Updates
Sign up
-
www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/patient-family-engagement/pfeprimarycare/partnering-a.pdf
May 01, 2016 - Partnering To Improve Safety, Quality, and Patient Experience
Partnering To Improve Safety, Quality … ,
and Patient Experience
What is it? … A Patient and Family Advisory Committee (PFAC) is
a group of patients, family members, office staff, … and
doctors who work together to improve safety, quality,
and the patient experience. … A PFAC can:
■ Help your doctors and their office staff learn from
your experience as a patient or a
-
www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/cahps/news-and-events/events/webinars/02-pt-narratives-support-px-strategy-bakdash.pdf
June 02, 2025 - How Patient Narratives Can Support Your Patient Experience Strategy (Webcast) - Bakdash
AHRQ’S CAHPS … 7
What is Patient Experience? … ASPECTS
OF PATIENT
EXPERIENCE
Access to Care
Courtesy
and Respect
Care
Coordination
Culturally … from patients:
Quantitative Methods
• CAHPS surveys, proprietary surveys, “home grown” surveys
Qualitative … Methods for Collecting Patient Experience Information
Examples of CAHPS Narrative Items
Gain for Adding
-
www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/cahps/news-and-events/podcasts/The_Case_for_Improving_Patient_Experience_-2011_10_01_Transcript.pdf
January 01, 2011 - CAHPS QI The Case for Improving Patient Experience
The Case for Improving Patient Experience … Can we
start off by telling us why the patient experience information was important to your practice … Larry Morrissey
Carla, we felt that giving patients a good experience was really central to the mission … So when you first started to collect patient experience data, was everyone on board? … and improvement in the score on that specific patient experience question.
-
www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/cahps/quality-improvement/improvement-guide/6-strategies-for-improving/6-improvement-strategies.pdf
March 01, 2017 - Guide
Practical Strategies for Improving Patient Experience
Section 6: Strategies for Improving Patient … STRATEGIES FOR IMPROVING PATIENT EXPERIENCE WITH AMBULATORY CARE 6-1
6.A. … Why Improve Patient Experience?
3. Are You Ready to Improve?
4. … Determining Where to Focus Efforts to Improve Patient Experience
6. … patient experience measures from MHQP’s statewide Patient
Experience Survey, which is based on the
-
www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/cahps/news-and-events/events/webinars/patient-narratives-webinar-intro.pdf
May 12, 2022 - The Power of Patient Stories for Improving the Patient Experience webcast - Intro
The Power of Patient … Stories for Improving the Patient
Experience
A Webcast Presented by the AHRQ CAHPS User Network
May … 12, 2022
1:00 – 2:00 pm ET
Today’ Agenda
• Welcome from AHRQ
• The Power of Patient Stories
• … s Speakers
• Caren Ginsberg, PhD, CPXP
Director, CAHPS & SOPS, Center for Quality Improvement and
Patient … Healthcare Research and Quality
• Rachel Grob, MA, PhD
Director of National Initiatives, Center for Patient
-
www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/cahps/news-and-events/events/webinars/03-pt-narratives-support-px-strategy-grob.pdf
June 02, 2025 - How Patient Narratives Can Support Your Patient Experience Strategy (Webcast) - Grob
Patient Narrative … and
improvement
Deepen understanding of and
relationships with patients • Suggest solutions • Promote … knowledge
Deepen
understanding/
relationship
with patients
Identify areas
of
improvement … and potential
solutions
Enable
better
patient
experience
assessment
Cultivating a service- … experience
Workforce experience
15
Patient Narrative Research Insights - How Patient Narratives
-
www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/cahps/news-and-events/events/webinars/ipe-large-org-webcast-ginsberg.pdf
November 01, 2006 - Improving Patient Experience in Large Organizations webcast - Ginsberg
AHRQ’S CAHPS® PROGRAM
Caren … experience of care
− our knowledge of measuring patient experience and collecting
relevant data
− … providers
9
CAHPS Surveys
• Surveys measure patient experience, not patient satisfaction … • Surveys measure patient experience of care in different settings. … Experience Improvement
• Leadership and governance
• Partnerships with patients and families
• Focus
-
www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/cahps/news-and-events/events/webinars/data-analysis-webcast-advancing-methods-4.pdf
March 03, 2021 - Improving Patient Experience: Data Analysis Methods webcast - Wellstar
Advancing Methods of Implementing … and
Evaluating Patient Experience
Improvement Using CAHPS® Surveys
March 3, 2021
Natalie McNeal … EXPERIENCE
Background: Patient Experience Scores were below desired levels. … possible for our patients and their loved
ones. … Improvement Design
Enhancing the Patient Experience
A3 Communication Format
5 Whys Approach to Cause
-
www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/cahps/news-and-events/events/webinars/data-analysis-webcast-intro-1.pdf
March 03, 2021 - Improving Patient Experience: Data Analysis Methods webcast - Intro
Improving Patient Experience: … :00 – 2:00 pm ET
Our Focus Today
• Overview of AHRQ’s CAHPS program
• Foundational elements of patient … experience improvement
• Two case studies presenting:
► Key driver analyses and journey mapping to … Programs
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
• Jennifer Purdy, LCSW, CPXP
Executive Director
VA Patient … Experience Program
• Jim Schaefer, M.P.H.