• J Pain Symptom Manage · Feb 2016

    Multicenter Study

    Feeling Heard and Understood: A Patient-Reported Quality Measure for the Inpatient Palliative Care Setting.

    • Robert Gramling, Susan Stanek, Susan Ladwig, Elizabeth Gajary-Coots, Jenica Cimino, Wendy Anderson, Sally A Norton, AAHPM Research Committee Writing Group, Rebecca A Aslakson, Katherine Ast, Ronit Elk, Kimberly K Garner, Corita Grudzen, Arif H Kamal, Sangeeta Lamba, Thomas W LeBlanc, Ramona L Rhodes, Eric Roeland, Dena Schulman-Green, and Kathleen T Unroe.
    • University of Rochester, Rochester, New York, USA. Electronic address: Robert_Gramling@URMC.Rochester.edu.
    • J Pain Symptom Manage. 2016 Feb 1; 51 (2): 150-4.

    ContextAs endorsed by the palliative care "Measuring What Matters" initiative, capturing patients' direct assessment of their care is essential for ongoing quality reporting and improvement. Fostering an environment where seriously ill patients feel heard and understood is of crucial importance to modern health care.ObjectivesTo describe the development and performance of a self-report field measure for seriously ill patients to report how well they feel heard and understood in the hospital environment.MethodsAs part of a larger ongoing cohort study of inpatient palliative care, we developed and administered the following point-of-care item: "Over the past two days, how much have you felt heard and understood by the doctors, nurses and hospital staff?" (completely, quite a bit, moderately, slightly, not at all). Participants completed the measure before and the day after palliative care consultation. For the postconsultation version, we changed the time frame from "past two days" to "today."ResultsOne hundred sixty patients with advanced cancer completed the preconsultation assessment, and 87% of them completed the postconsultation version. Responses encompassed full use of the ordinal scale, did not exhibit ceiling or floor effects, and showed improvement from preassessment to postassessment. The item was quick to administer and easy for patients to complete.ConclusionThe "Heard & Understood" item is a promising self-report quality measure for the inpatient palliative care setting.Copyright © 2016 American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

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