Patients' experience of health care should be a greater part of assessing quality, says researcher

Patients' experience of health care should be a greater part of assessing quality, says researcher

Everyone wants good quality health care, but what exactly is quality and how do you measure it? Is it to do with the waiting time for home care services? Or how many nursing home residents have had medical supervision in the past year? Or whether the medication lists have been checked recently?

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image:  “What stands out in particular in my research is how much being seen and treated as an individual has to do with the experience of quality,” says Randi Olsson Haave.  view more  Credit: Photo: Mads Wang-Svendsen Everyone wants good quality healthcare, but what exactly is quality and how do you measure it? Is it to do with the waiting time for home care services? Or how many nursing home residents have had medical supervision in the past…