Supplemental Items for the CAHPS Clinician & Group Adult Survey 3.0: Care From Specialists
Population version: Adult
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Users of the CAHPS Clinician & Group Survey are free to incorporate supplemental items in order to meet the needs of their organizations, local markets, and/or audiences. Some items cover events that occur with low frequency in the general population. You should include them only if your sample design is likely to yield a sufficient number of responses to those questions for statistical analysis and reporting.
If any of the following specialist items are used:
- Add a new subheading after core question 22: Your Care From Specialists in the Last 6 Months
- Change the skip instructions in core question 4 so that respondents who did not have any visits to "this provider" will skip to SC1 instead.
- Add the following instructions under the heading but before SC1: These questions ask about your own health care. Do not include care you got when you stayed overnight in a hospital. Do not include the times you went for dental care visits.
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Placement and Other Instructions |
| C-SC1. Specialists are doctors like surgeons, heart doctors, allergy doctors, skin doctors, and other doctors who specialize in one area of health care. In the last 6 months, did you make any appointments to see a specialist?
1__ Yes
2__ No → If No, go to core question 23
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After core question 22
Delete specialist definition from C-SC1 if using PCMH2 or PR1.
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| C-SC2. In the last 6 months, how often was it easy to get appointments with specialists?
1__ Never
2__ Sometimes
3__ Usually
4__ Always
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After core question 22
Note: Use with C-SC1
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| C-SC3. How many specialists have you seen in the last 6 months?
__ None → If None, go to core question 23
__ 1 specialist
__ 2
__ 3
__ 4
__ 5 or more specialists
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After core question 22
Note: Use with C-SC1
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| C-SC4. In the last 6 months, how often did the specialists you saw seem to know the important information about your medical history?
1__ Never
2__ Sometimes
3__ Usually
4__ Always
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After core question 22
Note: Use with C-SC1
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| C-SC5. We want to know your rating of the specialist you saw most often in the last 6 months. Using any number from 0 to 10, where 0 is the worst specialist possible and 10 is the best specialist possible, what number would you use to rate that specialist?
__ 0 Worst specialist possible
__ 1
__ 2
__ 3
__ 4
__ 5
__ 6
__ 7
__ 8
__ 9
__ 10 Best specialist possible
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After core question 22
Note: Use with C-SC1
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