Patient experience encompasses the range of interactions that patients have with the health care system, including their care from health plans, and from doctors, nurses, and staff in hospitals, physician practices, and other health care facilities. The terms patient satisfaction and patient experience are often used interchangeably, but they are not the same thing.
Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (CAHPS®) surveys ask consumers and patients to report on and evaluate their experiences with health care. These surveys cover topics that are important to consumers and focus on aspects of quality that consumers are best qualified to assess, such as the communication skills of providers and ease of access to health care services.
Reference: http://www.ahrq.gov/cahps/about-cahps/index.html
The graphs below depict a summary of our 2016 survey results.
