01.11.2015 | Original Article
Evaluating patient experience in a cystic fibrosis centre using a disease-specific patient satisfaction questionnaire
Erschienen in: European Journal of Pediatrics | Ausgabe 11/2015
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What is Known:
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• Patients’ views are important if health professionals aim at providing patient-centred care.
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• To evaluate the patients’ and parents’ perspective of care provided by specialized cystic fibrosis (CF) centres, a disease-specific questionnaire was developed and used for a nationwide survey in over 2000 parents and adult patients from 56 German CF centres.
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What is New:
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• In this single-centre experience, the questionnaire helped to identify and analyze strengths and weaknesses of our centre’s performance, enabled benchmarking and the introduction of specific quality improvement measures.
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• After we had redesigned policies and procedures, the results of the second survey 2 years later showed progress in several areas of care, indicating that the questionnaire can serve as a tool for providing patient-centred care as well as for quality improvement.
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