Before you left the emergency room, did staff give you information about what symptoms or health problems to look out for at home? Answer options: yes definitely, yes somewhat, no.

A subset of the denominator that represents patients aged 18 and older who responded to questions regarding symptom monitoring information provided within the emergency department.

Patients aged 18 and older who responded to questions regarding symptom monitoring information being provided within an emergency department setting.

Patients under the age of 18, Patients who were not discharged to home (i.e., patients with a discharge code other than 01 or 071), Patients who were admitted to the hospital from the ED, Patients who left without being seen and did not receive a billing code, Patient who died in the ED, Patients who request that they not be contacted, Court/law enforcement patients (i.e., prisoners) classified under admission source code 8 or discharge codes 21 and 871, Patients with a foreign (Non-US or Non-US Territory address) home address, Patients excluded because of state regulations that place further restrictions on who may be contacted after discharge.

Emergency Department Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (ED CAHPS) Survey

www.cms.gov/data-research/research/consumer-assessment-healthcare-providers-systems/emergency-department-cahps

www.cms.gov/files/document/edpec-50-2-column-survey-english.pdf