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June 02, 2025 - Understanding CAHPS® Surveys: A Primer for New Users - Shaller
HOW ARE SURVEY RESULTS
USED? … Public reporting
• Value-based payment
• Recognition and certification
• Research
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Using CAHPS Surveys … initiatives
• CAHPS resources for research:
► CAHPS Database Research Files
► CMS Data Sets for CAHPS surveys … Quickly
Getting Needed
Care
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CAHPS Database Overview
• Databases are for selected CAHPS surveys … Using CAHPS Surveys To Improve Patient Experience
CAHPS Ambulatory Care Improvement Guide
Use of Survey
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June 02, 2025 - Understanding CAHPS® Surveys: A Primer for New Users - Fry
HOW ARE CAHPS SURVEYS
ADMINISTERED? … Stephanie Fry
Senior Study Director
Westat
Drawing a Sample
• Sampling varies by survey and reporting … with mail or telephone follow-up
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Analysis of Survey Results
• Calculation of survey
composite … mix adjustment
► CAHPS SAS macro
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CAHPS Resources
AHRQ CAHPS Web site:
www.ahrq.gov/cahps
• Surveys … • Survey administration methods
• CAHPS Analysis Macro
• FAQs and answers
• Bibliography
• CAHPS Ambulatory
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June 02, 2025 - Understanding CAHPS® Surveys: A Primer for New Users - Closing
Using the Webcast Console to
Submit
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June 02, 2025 - Understanding SOPS Surveys: A Primer for New Users (Webcast) - Closing
Questions & Answers
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Submitting
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www.ahrq.gov/cahps
To Ask a Question … www.ahrq.gov/cahps
Wrap-Up
• Complete the evaluation survey at the end of the
Webcast.
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June 02, 2025 - Understanding SOPS® Surveys: A Primer for New Users - Closing
Questions & Answers
How to Ask
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www.ahrq.gov/cahps/surveys-guidance/cg/cahps-mips.html
July 01, 2022 - CAHPS for Merit-Based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) Survey
The CAHPS for MIPS Survey is a … This survey is an optional quality measure that those groups can elect to administer. … It replaces the CAHPS for Physician Quality Reporting System (PQRS) Survey. … Because the CAHPS for MIPS Survey adds items to the core CAHPS Clinician & Group Survey, it generates … No documentation for this survey is available on AHRQ's Web site.
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www.ahrq.gov/news/newsroom/case-studies/201525.html
September 01, 2015 - , the Medical Office Survey on Patient Safety Culture , to improve patient care. … The Medical Office Survey on Patient Safety Culture is one of five AHRQ safety culture surveys. … Funaro educating staff on the importance of the survey. … results against results from 934 medical offices and more than 23,000 respondents who have administered … on Patient Safety,
Surveys on Patient Safety Culture,
Surveys on Patient Safety Culture
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January 01, 1998 - Surveys
Paul Cleary, Ph.D. … health care services for the
CAHPS Clinician & Group Survey and the CAHPS Health Plan Survey
► New … in 2024: CAHPS Outpatient Mental Health Survey
► In progress: CAHPS Inpatient Survey; field testing … 3 surveys—CABHS, MHSIP, and a hybrid. … Care Surveys
Experience of Care & Health Outcomes (ECHO) Survey
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June 02, 2025 - Introducing the CAHPS Clinician & Group Visit Survey 4.0 (beta) - Ginsberg
AHRQ’S CAHPS® PROGRAM
Caren … • CAHPS surveys are the gold standard for patient
experience measurement … • Surveys measure patient experience of care in different
settings. … • Surveys are developed using standardized methodology
and research findings. … • Update:
► CAHPS Health Plan 5.1 Survey
• Updates In Progress:
► CAHPS Clinician & Group 3.1 survey
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June 02, 2025 - Best Practices for Administering SOPS® Surveys Users (Webcast): Closing
Q&A
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www.ahrq.gov/cahps/news-and-events/podcasts/measure-patient-experience-podcast.html
March 01, 2017 - When we ask about patient experience in a CAHPS survey, we're trying to find out from patients whether … principles for CAHPS survey design. … developed in a systematic and rigorous way, using well-established methods of survey science. … I’ve seen the survey development process that the team follows to ensure that you are clear on the specific … experiences that are most important to patients so that the survey gives you information that providers
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www.ahrq.gov/cahps/quality-improvement/index.html
October 01, 2023 - Learn more:
Using CAHPS Clinician & Group Survey Data . … Using CAHPS Health Plan Survey Data . … Analyze the results of CAHPS surveys to identify strengths and weaknesses. … Strategies for Improving CAHPS Health Plan Survey Scores . … Strategies for Improving CAHPS Clinician & Group (CG-CAHPS) Survey Scores .
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June 02, 2025 - CAHPS Child Hospital Survey: The CAHPS Program
AHRQ’S CAHPS® PROGRAM
Jonathan Bakdash, Ph.D. … database submissions for Quality Improvement
• AHRQ’s investment is in patient experience of care survey … development,
research, and hosting databases for selected CAHPS surveys
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Patient Experience … Making
Self
Management
Support
CAHPS Program: Gold Standard for Patient Experience
CAHPS surveys … methodology for development, validation, and
revision
• Extensively tested with patients
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CAHPS Surveys
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May 01, 2017 - What are CAHPS surveys? … All CAHPS
surveys are standardized, which means
that results can be compared by survey
users across … : the
CAHPS Health Plan Survey and the CAHPS
Clinician & Group Survey. … for Quality Assurance, health plans must submit the results
of a modified version of the commercial questionnaire … HCAHPS) or other CAHPS surveys.
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September 01, 2018 - Developing Invitation Messages that Increase Survey Response Rates - Brown
Foundations in Prior Research … • Today’s presentations build on prior research
► History of CAHPS research to inform survey wording … findings
► September 2018 AHRQ Research Meeting, “Advances in Survey
Methodology: Maximizing Response … Internet, Phone, Mail, and Mixed-
Mode Surveys: The Tailored Design Method.
− Fazekas, Z., Wall, M.T … Methods to increase response rates to postal questionnaires.
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http://www.ahrq.gov/
http://www.ahrq.gov
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/topics/dxsafety-patient-experience-vol2.pdf
July 01, 2023 - Thus, surveys must be
structured to allow respondents to recount these interactions in an order that … Our own (unpublished) data suggest that 79% of survey
respondents who are not reporting on their own … If a survey instead asks respondents about “feeling
unsafe” during their experiences as patients, a … persisting sequelae of diagnostic mishaps reported in elicited patient
narratives
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Virtually every respondent … relates to survey format and timing.
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January 01, 2016 - Respondent Characteristics
• There were 447,584 hospital staff respondents. … Results by Respondent Characteristics
Work Area/Unit
• Respondents in Rehabilitation had the highest … Some hospitals used a paper-only survey, others used Web-
only surveys, and others used a combination … Survey methodology issues can also play a big role in score changes. … It should
exclude surveys that were returned blank on all nondemographic survey items but include
surveys
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January 01, 2021 - Introducing a New Database for Users of the CAHPS Home and Community-Based Services (HCBS CAHPS) Survey … - GINSBERG
AHRQ’S CAHPS® PROGRAM
Caren Ginsberg, Ph.D., CPXP
Director, CAHPS and Surveys on Patient … settings and with
health plans and providers
►Develops and operates voluntary databases for CAHPS
survey … data
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CAHPS Surveys: Gold standard for patient
experience measurement
CAHPS Surveys:
► Measure … principles; ensures comparability across settings,
plans, providers, programs
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Uses of CAHPS Surveys
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March 15, 2016 - Strategies for Improving CAHPS Clinician & Group (CG-CAHPS) Survey Scores
Strategies for Improving … CAHPS
Clinician & Group (CG-CAHPS)
Survey Scores
A Webcast Presented by the AHRQ CAHPS User Network … Facility Surveys
Hospital
In-Center Hemodialysis
Nursing Home
Ambulatory Care Surveys
Clinician … MA (Moderator)
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Strategies for Improving CAHPS Clinician & Group (CG-CAHPS) Survey … Scores
CAHPS Webcast Series
CAHPS Family of Surveys
Facility Surveys
Ambulatory Care Surveys
Our