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Instruments To Measure The Inpatient Hospital Experience: A Literature Review, Kelly J. Edwards, Kim Walker, Jed Duff
Instruments To Measure The Inpatient Hospital Experience: A Literature Review, Kelly J. Edwards, Kim Walker, Jed Duff
Patient Experience Journal
Healthcare professionals worldwide are increasingly broadening their focus to include the experiences of patients and their family members as a means of assessing quality patient centered care. This paper seeks to identify and discuss instruments specifically designed to measure the inpatient hospital experience. A literature search focusing on pre-identified instruments as per the Health Foundation’s Helping Measuring Patient Centered Care database of measurement instruments (de Silva, 2014) and additional health databases (CINAHL, ERIC, EBSCO, HaPI, MEDLINE, PubMed and Psych INFO) was undertaken. Thirteen relevant instruments and seventeen associated studies (regarding instrument development and or validation) were identified. These instruments provide …