Association between use of clinician performance information and patient experience.

Objectives: To study the association between the collection and use of clinician performance information in physician practices and patient experience in primary care.

Study Design: Patient experience scores are calculated from the 2018-2019 Massachusetts Statewide Survey of Adult Patient Experience of Primary Care. Physicians were attributed to physician practices using the Massachusetts Healthcare Quality Provider database.

MEASURING PATIENT EXPERIENCE OF ORAL HEALTH CARE: A CALL TO ACTION.

Background: Surveys to measure patients' experiences of health care are common practice in general medical care to improve patient centered care. However, such questionnaires are not consistently used to capture the patient's experience of oral health care. Because patient experience is an important component of oral health care, there is an urgent need to measure it in the oral health care setting.

Producing comparable cost and quality results from all-payer claims databases.

Objectives: To describe how all-payer claims databases (APCDs) can be used for multistate analysis, evaluating the feasibility of overcoming the common barrier of a lack of standardization across data sets to produce comparable cost and quality results for 4 states. This study is part of a larger project to better understand the cost and quality of healthcare services across delivery organizations.

Study Design: Descriptive account of the process followed to produce healthcare quality and cost measures across and within 4 regional APCDs.