Inpatient Survey
- Abstract
- Survey of the views of adult inpatients ask about the experiences of people who have been admitted to hospital overnight or for longer. The Inpatient Survey, 2004 was designed to provide actionable feedback to each participating NHS trust on patients' views of the care they had received as in-patients, as well as providing the Healthcare Commission with patient-focused indicators to feed into the 2004 performance ratings for acute and specialist trusts.
- Main Topics/Subject Category
- Health services and medical care
- Variables
- Admissions to hospital (routine and emergency), organisation of care and treatment, waiting time, courtesy of and confidence in medical and nursing staff, privacy, noise, cleanliness of bathrooms and lavatories, medical consultations, medicines and treatment prescribed and whether enough information and guidance were provided, choice and decision-making with regard to admission and treatment, clinical tests performed, information received by families and persons close to respondent, respondents' demographic characteristics
- Keywords
- England, age, bathrooms, choice, cleaning, clinical tests and measurements, decision making, drug side-effects, educational background, emergency and protective services, ethnic groups, families, food, gender, health, health advice, health consultations, health professionals, health services, hospital admissions, hospital outpatient services, hospitalization, information, information needs, interpersonal trust, lavatories, medical care, medicinal drugs, noise pollution, nurses, pain, patients, performance, physicians, time
- Identifier Variables
- PCT, HA, NHS trust
- Economic/Subject Categories
- Quality measure, Proxies
- Area of Health System
- Secondary care
- Data Available
- Demographic
- Data collecting organization (s)
- Picker Institute Europe
- Data Type
- Survey (cross-sectional)
- National/Regional
- National
- Coverage (date of field work)
- 2004
- Unit of Analysis
- Individual
- Sample
- 88,308 adults in England who had had at least one overnight stay in hospital during the sampled period and were not maternity or psychiatry patients
- Availability
- ESDS, UK Data Archive
- Conditions of Access
- Free registration access
- Link
- http://www.esds.ac.uk/findi[…]+Commission+patient+surveys
- Contact
- help@esds.ac.uk
- Publications
- Jenkinson C, et al. Patients’ experiences and satisfaction with health care: results of a questionnaire study of specific aspects of care. Qual Saf Health Care 2002; 11: 335–339