1. Validation of a Parent-Reported Hospital-to-Home Transition Experience Measure.
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Desai, Arti D., Zhou, Chuan, Simon, Tamara D., Mangione-Smith, Rita, and Britto, Maria T.
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PARENT attitudes , *MEDICAL quality control , *CONFIDENCE intervals , *RESEARCH methodology evaluation , *RESEARCH methodology , *MEDICAL care , *HEALTH outcome assessment , *SURVEYS , *QUESTIONNAIRES , *QUALITY of life , *DESCRIPTIVE statistics , *ETHNIC groups , *DISCHARGE planning , *LONGITUDINAL method , *MEDICAL needs assessment , *EVALUATION ,RESEARCH evaluation - Abstract
OBJECTIVES: The Pediatric Transition Experience Measure (P-TEM) is an 8-item, parent-reported measure that globally assesses hospital-to-home transition quality from discharge through follow-up. Our goal was to examine the convergent validity of the P-TEM with existing, validated process and outcome measures of pediatric hospital-to-home transitions. METHODS: This was a prospective, cohort study of English-speaking parents and legal guardians who completed the P-TEM after their children's discharge from a tertiary children's hospital between January 2016 and October 2016. By using data from 3 surveys, we assessed convergent validity by examining associations between total and domain-specific P-TEM scores (0-100 scale) and 4 pediatric hospital-to-home transition validation measures: (1) Child Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems Discharge Composite, (2) Center of Excellence on Quality of Care Measures for Children With Complex Needs parent-reported transition measures, (3) change in health-related quality of life from admission to postdischarge, and (4) 30-day emergency department revisits or readmissions. RESULTS: P-TEM total scores were 7.5 points (95% confidence interval: 4.6 to 10.4) higher for participants with top-box responses on the Child Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems Discharge Composite compared with those of participants with lower Discharge Composite scores. Participants with highet P-TEM scores (ie, top-box responses) had 6.3-points--greater improvement (95% confidence interval: 2.8 to 9.8) in health-related quality of life compared with participants who reported lower P-TEM scores. P-TEM scores were not significantly associated with 7- or 30-day reuse. CONCLUSIONS: The P-TEM demonstrated convergent validity with existing hospital-to-home process and outcome validation measures in a population of hospitalized children. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2020
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