Listening to Needs- Doctors, Hospital
Identifying Attributes
Care Settings
Country
Publishing Organisation
Type of Quality Indicator
IOM Quality Dimension
Domain
Defining Attributes
Definition
Thinking about all the doctors and specialists you have seen at a hospital in the last 12 months, how often did they listen carefully to you- was it always, often, sometimes, rarely or never? Answer options: always, often, sometimes, rarely, never, didn't see any doctors or specialists.
Numerator
A subset of the denominator that represents patients aged 16 and older who responded to questions regarding doctors and specialists listening to needs within a hospital setting.
Denominator
Patients aged 16 and older who responded to questions regarding doctors listening to needs within an hospital setting.
Exclusions
Australian permanent defence force members and their dependants, non-Australian defence forces, residents of the Indigenous Community Strata, persons living in non-private dwellings such as hotels, university residences, boarding schools, hospitals, nursing homes, homes for people with disabilities, and prisons.