Patients’ Perceptions: A Group Differences Study Twelve Months Before and Twelve Months During a Worldwide Pandemic
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The COVID-19 pandemic subjected healthcare systems’ to decreasing operational margins, enhanced regulatory scrutiny, and challenges related to patients’ expectations. Until now, there was a lack of empirical evidence studying patients’ perceptions prior to versus deep immersion into the pandemic. This quantitative non-experimental ex post facto causal-comparative study examined if and to what extent there were significant differences in patients’ perceptions of the nurses’ communications, doctors’ communications, overall hospital rating, and willingness to recommend before versus during the COVID-19 pandemic for HCAHPS participating hospitals in California. The final sample size was 292 facilities grouped by two identically matched hospital entity composition for this within-subject group differences analysis.
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