Patient Assessments and Quality of Care in Rural Hospitals

摘要

The purpose of this project is to: (1) analyze the relationship between patients' perspectives of hospital quality of care and key hospital characteristics that may influence patients' experiences of hospital care, including rurality; and (2) assess whether patients' perspectives of hospital quality of care are related to quality measures focused on the provision of recommended care for medical conditions. The study uses CMS Consumer Assessment of Health Providers and Systems Survey (HCAHPS) data and Hospital Compare process measure data linked with data on hospital characteristics from the American Hospital Association (AHA) Annual Survey, and data on Critical Access Hospitals (CAHs), small rural hospitals with 25 or fewer beds, from a database maintained by the Flex Monitoring Team.