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## Objective: To examine the relation between two patient outcome measures that can be used to assess the quality of hospital care: changes in health status between admission and discharge, and patient satisfaction. ## Design: Prospective cohort study. ## Setting and patients: Subjects were 445 older medical patients (aged > or =70 years) hospitalized on the medical service of a teaching hospital. ## Measurements and main results: We interviewed patients at admission and discharge to obtain two measures of health status: global health and independence in five activities of daily living (adls). at discharge, we also administered a 5-item patient satisfaction questionnaire. we assessed the relation between changes in health status and patient satisfaction in two sets of analyses, that controlled for either admission or discharge health status. when controlling for admission health status, changes in health status between admission and discharge were positively associated with patient satisfaction (p values ranging from .01 to .08). however, when controlling for discharge health status, changes in health status were no longer associated with patient satisfaction. for example, among pa

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Author

Kenneth E. Covinsky; Gary E. Rosenthal; Mary-Margaret Chren; Amy C. Justice; Richard H. Fortinsky; Robert M. Palmer; C. Seth Landefeld

Publisher

John Wiley and Sons; Springer-Verlag; Springer Verlag; Springer Science and Business Media LLC (ISSN 0884-8734)

Published

1998

Language

EN

Field

Medicine (Health Sciences)