Perceived Change in Health Status While on the Waiting List to Be Admitted to Hospital
Identifying Attributes
Care Settings
Country
Publishing Organisation
Type of Quality Indicator
IOM Quality Dimension
Domain
Defining Attributes
Definition
Percentage of responses for each option of the question: While you were on the waiting list to be admitted to hospital, to what extent, if at all, do you feel your health changed? Answered by those whose most recent hospital admission was waiting list or planned in advance.
Numerator
Number of respondents who selected each option: 1 It got much better 2 It got a bit better 3 It stayed about the same 4 It got a bit worse 5 It got much worse.
Denominator
Total number of survey respondents who selected any of the response options to the question.
Exclusions
Option 6 Don't know / can't remember.
Use of Risk Adjustment
Risk Adjustments
Standardised by: age, sex and method of admission (emergency or elective). Results for each demographic subgroup generated as estimated marginal means using a mixed effects model allowing for a binary outcome, featuring trust as a random trust effect and fixed effects of measured demographic and care characteristic factors (effects measured at the individual level). For analyses of single questions, the modelled binary outcome was the probability of a respondent selecting the most positive answer ("top box") for that question (i.e. selected most positive = 1; did not select the most positive = 0). The analysis modelled the responses of different subgroups by sex, gender, age, ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, route of admission, length of stay, medical or surgical treatment, COVID-19 treatment status, ICD-10 chapter code, long-term condition, frailty and Index of Multiple Deprivation decile.
Stratifications
Data Attributes
Type of Data Collection
Data Collection Methods
Data collected using the NHS Adult Inpatient Survey, administered by the Picker Institute Europe on behalf of the Care Quality Commission, using a postal self-completion survey method. The survey looks at the experiences of patients 16 years and over who have had at least one overnight stay in hospital as an inpatient, covering both elective and emergency care admissions. Trusts with fewer than 1,250 eligible discharges in November sample backwards into earlier months (working backwards from 30 November) to reach the required sample size.
Frequency of Data Collection
Frequency of Data Collection in Days
Reporting Methods
Published on NHS surveys website.
Reporting Frequency
Reporting Frequency in Days
Indicator Has Recommended Targets
Source and Reference Attributes
Evidence Source
NHS Adult Inpatient Survey nhssurveys.org/surveys/survey/02-adults-inpatients/ Core questionnaire: view.officeapps.live.com/op/view.aspx?src=https%3A%2F%2Fnhssurveys.org%2Fwp-content%2Fsurveys%2F02-adults-inpatients%2F02-survey-materials%2F2022%2FCore%2520questionnaire.docx&wdOrigin=BROWSELINK Reported at: nhssurveys.org/data-library/
Link to Measurement Tools
NHS Adult Inpatient Survey nhssurveys.org/surveys/survey/02-adults-inpatients/