National Survey on Consumer Experiences With Patient Safety and Quality
Information
Five years after a groundbreaking Institute
of Medicine report focused attention on medical errors in hospitals, Americans
say that they do not believe that the Nation's quality of care has improved.
In a new survey, 4 in 10 (40 percent) people say the quality of health care has
gotten worse in the past 5 years, 1 in 6 (17 percent) says the quality of care
has gotten better, and nearly 4 in 10 (38 percent) say it has stayed the same.
Collaborating on the survey were the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation, the
Agency
for
Healthcare
Research and Quality (AHRQ), and the Harvard School of Public Health.
For more details—including a press release; toplines, summary, and chartpack
of survey findings, and a link to a Web cast of a November 17, 2004, briefing
on survey findings—go to http://www.kff.org/kaiserpolls/pomr111704pkg.cfm .
The briefing featured:
- AHRQ director Carolyn Clancy, M.D.
- Robert J. Blendon, professor of health policy at the Harvard School of Public Health.
- Mollyann Brodie, Kaiser Family Foundation vice president and director of public opinion and media research.
- Don Nielsen, senior vice president for quality leadership at the American Hospital
Association.
- Joyce Dubow, associate director of the AARP Public Policy Institute.
- Elliot Sussman, M.D., president and chief executive officer of the Lehigh Valley Hospital and Health Network.
Current as of November 2004
Internet Citation
National Survey on Consumer Experiences With Patient Safety
and Quality
Information. November 2004. http://www.ahrq.gov/qual/consattitud.htm
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