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Tools from the Medical Outcomes Trust (MOT)
Measuring the impact of IPECP on patient health and well-being is a primary goal of many IPECP efforts. The Medical Outcomes Trust (MOT) is a non-profit organization that has collected a number of highly respected instruments that may be of use for IPECP evaluation studies. All of the instruments in the MOT library have significant evidence of validity and have been widely adapted for many years. They are generally licensed for a fee, which may include data collection, analysis, and...
The Short-Form (SF-36) Health Survey
The SF-36 is a multi-purpose survey designed to capture adult patients' perceptions of their own health and well-being. Based on a much longer survey developed in the 1980's by Ware, J.E., the SF-36 has 36 items grouped in 8 dimensions: physical functoning, physicial and emotional limitations, social functioning, bodily pain, general and mental health. It is a generic measure, as opposed to one that targets a specific age, disease, or treatment group. It can be administered in a...
Patient Reported Outcomes Measurement Information System (PROMISE)
PROMIS® is a set of patient-centered tools that can be used to evaluate the physical, mental, and social health of adults and children. The tools can be used with the general population and individuals with chronic conditions. PROMIS instruments measure concepts such as pain, fatigue, physical function, depression, anxiety and social function. PROMIS has constructed item banks (a collection of questions measuring the same thing that can be administered in short forms or adaptively through...
Hospital Consumer Assessment of Providers and Systems (HCAPS)
The Health Care Quality Information from the Consumer Perspective (HCAHPS, pronounced "H-caps"), also known as the CAHPS Hospital Survey, is the first national, standardized, publicly reported survey of patients' perspectives of hospital care. CAHPS surveys focus on aspects of care that meet two criteria: (1) The people who received care are the best and/or only source of the information ; and (2) Consumers and patients identified the information as important to them. CAHPS...
Communication Assessment Tool- Team (CAT-T)
The CAT-T is a patient satisfaction survey focused on the quality of communication received from a medical team during a visit to the emergency department. "Communication" refers to the interactions between members of the health care team and the patient (not interactions among health care team members). "Communication skills" was considered a single unitary construct undelying all of the items. The CAT-T represents a replication of a previously studied instrument, "...
Patient's Insights and Views Observing Teams Questionnaire (PIVOT)
The PIVOT is a 16-item, self-report survey that asks patients to evaluate team behaviors (e.g., interactions, communications, coordination), as experienced in a recent visit to an emergency department. Items were developed through a line of research that included exploratory interviews with patients and caregivers to identify areas for item development, a web-based survey of health care providers and patient advocates to structure the survey, and cognitive interviewing with patients and...