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Premier submitted comments to a request for information (RFI) from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) on a potential Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (CAHPS®) survey to assess patients' prenatal care and childbirth care experiences in ambulatory and inpatient care settings. Currently, no CAHPS instrument is available that is specifically designed to measure prenatal and childbirth care from the patient's perspective in these settings.
In its comments, Premier supports a dedicated survey tool designed to measure prenatal and childbirth care from the patient’s perspective and recommends methodologically sound approaches to capture this data in healthcare settings, including: