Comparison of hospital consumer assessment of healthcare providers and systems patient satisfaction scores for specialty hospitals and general medical hospitals: Confounding effect of survey response rate

Journal of Hospital Medicine

Volumn 9, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 590-593

  Siddiqui, Zishan K ^a   Wu, Albert W ^a,b   Kurbanova, Nargiza ^c   Qayyum, Rehan ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c Essex Campus   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLEANING; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONSUMER; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; GENERAL HOSPITAL; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HOSPITAL CONSUMER ASSESSMENT OF HEALTHCARE PROVIDERS AND SYSTEMS SATISFACTION SCORE; HUMAN; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; MULTICENTER STUDY; NAMED INVENTORIES, QUESTIONNAIRES AND RATING SCALES; PATIENT SATISFACTION; REFERENCE DATABASE; TEACHING HOSPITAL; ANALGESIA; HOSPITAL; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; UNITED STATES;

COMMUNICATION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; HOSPITALS, GENERAL; HOSPITALS, SPECIAL; HUMANS; PAIN MANAGEMENT; PATIENT SATISFACTION; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84908447186     PISSN: 15535592     EISSN: 15535606     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jhm.2225     Document Type: Article

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