Open AccessDifferences in Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems Clinician and Group Survey Scores by Recency of the Last Visit
Author(s) -
Claude Messan Setodji,
Q. Burkhart,
Ron D. Hays,
Denise D. Quigley,
Samuel A. Skootsky,
Marc N. Elliott
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
medical care
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.632
H-Index - 178
eISSN - 1537-1948
pISSN - 0025-7079
DOI - 10.1097/mlr.0000000000001134
Subject(s) - medicine , sampling (signal processing) , comparability , observational study , health care , patient experience , case mix index , patient satisfaction , confidence interval , family medicine , surgery , psychiatry , mathematics , filter (signal processing) , combinatorics , computer science , economics , computer vision , economic growth
Patient experience data can be collected by sampling patients periodically (eg, patients with any visits over a 1-year period) or sampling visits continuously (eg, sampling any visit in a monthly interval). Continuous sampling likely yields a sample with more frequent and more recent visits, possibly affecting the comparability of data collected under the 2 approaches.