Transitional aged care and the patient's view of quality

被引：4
作者：
Gill, Liz [1 ]
White, Lesley [2 ]
Cameron, Ian [3 ,4 ]
机构：
[1] Univ Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia
[2] Univ Sydney, Pharm Management, Sydney, NSW, Australia
[3] Univ Sydney, Rehabil Studies Unit, Sydney, NSW, Australia
[4] Royal Rehabil Ctr, Med Serv, Sydney, NSW, Australia
来源：
QUALITY IN AGEING AND OLDER ADULTS | 2010年 / 11卷 / 02期
关键词：
Service quality; transitional aged care; measurement; service evaluation; patient's perspective; health care;
D O I：
10.5042/qiaoa.2010.0285
中图分类号：
R4 [临床医学]; R592 [老年病学];
学科分类号：
1002 ; 100203 ; 100602 ;
摘要：
This paper synthesises the literature on the issues related to the older patient, health service quality and its measurement. It discusses the need to consider these perspectives in the definition and assessment of quality of a community-focused aged healthcare programme, and critically examines the existing evaluation of quality in healthcare, contrasting the patient's role and impact on the quality of the service and its outcome. The paper then reviews the documented problems associated with using satisfaction as an indicator of the patient's view of quality, An alternate validated approach to measuring the patient's perception of the quality of the service is identified in the services literature; this multidimensional hierarchical tool and scale, which specifically measures the patient's view of quality, is presented. The tool covers nine sub-dimensions, four dimensions and the global perspective of quality as perceived by the patient. An adaptation of this tool is presented to measure the patient's view of quality using the relatively new Transition Aged Care programme as an example, and make the argument for the holistic measurement of transitional aged care quality, using a validated and reliable patient-specific tool, Importantly, the paper proposes that the identification of the patient view of service quality will offer information that could specifically assist with service improvement,
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