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The Hospital Consumer Assessment Of Healthcare Providers And Systems And Readmissions, Sheri Matson
The Hospital Consumer Assessment Of Healthcare Providers And Systems And Readmissions, Sheri Matson
Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies
Patient perception of care has become a main priority in the delivery of high-quality health care. The creation of the Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (HCAHPS) survey provided a nationally standardized method of evaluating patient perception to be incorporated in the reimbursement process defined by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between HCAHPS scores and readmission rates in 2 states in the South Atlantic region of the United States. Using social construction theory, this quantitative study utilized multiple regression analysis to analyze HCAHPS scores (independent …