ÿþ<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC '-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN'> <html><head><title>Title Page</title><meta http-equiv='Content-Type' content='text/html; charset=iso-8859-1'><style type='text/css'>h1 { margin:0px 0px 0px 0px; padding:0px; font-size:large; font-weight:900; font-family:verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; text-align:center; color:#000; }h2 { font-size:medium; font-weight:900; font-family:verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; margin:10px 0px -2px 0px; padding:0px; color:#000; }h2.myclass { font-size:medium; font-weight:900; font-family:verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; margin:10px 0px -2px 0px; padding:0px; color:#000; text-align:center;}h3 { font-size:13px; font-weight:700; font-family:verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; margin:0px 0px -1px 0px; padding:0px; color:#07a; }h3.myclass { font-size:13px; font-weight:700; font-family:verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; margin:0px 0px -1px 0px; padding:0px; color:#07a; text-align:center;}h4 { font-size:x-large; font-family:garamond, serif; color:#09f; text-align:center; margin:0px 0px 5px 0px; padding:0px;}h5 { font-size:13px; font-family:verdana, arial,sans-serif; font-weight:600; margin:0px 0px 5px 50px; padding:0px;}i.myclass{color:#07a;}</style></head><body> <H1> Acute Trusts: Adult Inpatients Survey, 2006 </H1> <H3 class='myclass'> UKDA study number:5628</h3> <H2 class='myclass'>Principal Investigators </H2> <H3 class='myclass'> Healthcare Commission<br>Picker Institute Europe<br> </H3> <H2 class='myclass'>Sponsors</H2> <H3 class='myclass'>Healthcare Commission<br>National Health Service<br></H3> <H2 class='myclass'>Distributed by</H2> <H3 class='myclass'>UK Data Archive, University of Essex, Colchester.</H3> <H3 class='myclass'> September 2007 </H3> <div style='page-break-before:always'></div> <H1>&nbsp;</H1><H1>Bibliographic Citation</H1> <H5> All works which use or refer to these materials should acknowledge these sources by means of bibliographic citation. To ensure that such source attributions are captured for bibliographic indexes, citations must appear in footnotes or in the reference section of publications. The bibliographic citation for this data collection is: </h5> <H5> Healthcare Commission and Picker Institute Europe, <i> Acute Trusts: Adult Inpatients Survey, 2006</i> [computer file]. Colchester, Essex: UK Data Archive [distributor], September 2007. SN: 5628, http://dx.doi.org/10.5255/UKDA-SN-5628-1. </h5><H1>&nbsp;</H1> <H1 >Acknowledgement</h1> <h5> Any publication, whether printed, electronic or broadcast, based wholly or in part on these materials, should acknowledge the original data creators, depositors or copyright holders, the funders of the Data Collections (if different) and the UK Data Archive, and to acknowledge Crown Copyright where appropriate. <br> Any publication, whether printed, electronic or broadcast, based wholly or in part on these materials should carry a statement that the original data creators, depositors or copyright holders, the funders of the Data Collections (if different) and the UK Data Archive bear no responsibility for their further analysis or interpretation. </h5><H5>&nbsp;</H5> <h5><b>Copyright: </b><br> Care Quality Commission </h5><H1>&nbsp;</H1> <H1>Disclaimer</H1> <h5> Although all efforts are made to ensure the quality of the materials, neither the original data creators, depositors or copyright holders, the funders of the Data Collections, nor the UK Data Archive bear any responsibility for the accuracy or comprehensiveness of these materials.<br> </h5><h5>&nbsp;</h5><h5>All rights reserved. No part of these materials may be reproduced, stored in, or introduced into a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form, or by any means (electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise) without the prior written permission of the UK Data Archive.<br><br>UK Data Archive<br> University of Essex<br> Wivenhoe Park<br> Colchester<br> Essex C04 3SQ<br> United Kingdom<br>www.data-archive.ac.uk <br><br> </h5> <h2 style='page-break-before:always'> 5628 . Acute Trusts: Adult Inpatients Survey, 2006<br> (NHS Patient Survey Programme) </h2><h3>&nbsp;</h3> <h3>Depositor:</h3> <h5>Healthcare Commission</h5> <h3>Principal Investigators:</h3> <h5>Healthcare Commission</h5> <h5>Picker Institute Europe</h5> <H3>Sponsors:</H3><H5> Healthcare Commission<br>National Health Service<br> </H5> <h3> Other Acknowledgements: </h3> <h5>Additional funding is provided for the surveys by National Health Service trusts throughout England. While some trusts hire an approved survey contractor, others conduct the surveys 'in-house'. Thirteen organisations have been approved by the Care Quality Commission to carry out local NHS trust surveys.<br></h5> <h3> Abstract: </h3> <h5>The National Health Service (NHS) programme of patient surveys began in 2003, and was conducted by the Commission for Health Improvement (CHI), along with the Commission for Healthcare Audit and Inspection (CHAI). Administration of the programme was taken over by the Healthcare Commission in time for the 2004 series. On the 1st April 2009, the Care Quality Commission (CQC) was formed which replaced the Healthcare Commission (users should note that some of the surveys in the series conducted prior to this date will still be attributed to the Healthcare Commission).<br> <br> Each survey has a different focus. These include a focus on patients' experiences in Primary Care Trusts (PCTs), a focus on patients' experiences in outpatient and accident and emergency departments in Acute Trusts, and a focus on the experiences of people using mental health services in the community. Understanding what people think about the care and treatment they receive is crucial to improving the quality of care being delivered by healthcare organisations.<br> <br> The National Patient Survey Programme is one of the largest patient survey programmes in the world. It provides an opportunity to monitor experiences of health and provides CQC with data to assist with registration of trusts and monitoring on-going compliance. The surveys cover issues that affect the quality of care that patients receive and have been identified by patients as important to them. The programme aims to:<ul><li>provide feedback from patients to health care organisations, which can be used locally for quality improvement</li><li>gather information about the experiences of people using services to inform performance assessments and CQC inspections and reviews, at a local level</li><li>assess the performance of health care providers and monitor the experience of patients at a national level</li><li>allow health care organisations to compare their results so that best practice can be shared</li></ul>Further information may be found on the CQC <a href="http://www.cqc.org.uk/aboutcqc/howwedoit/involvingpeoplewhouseservices/patientsurveys.cfm" title="Patient Survey Programme">Patient Survey Programme</a> web pages.<br>The <i>Adult Inpatients Survey, 2006</i> was designed to provide actionable feedback to each participating NHS trust on patients' views of the care they had received as inpatients, as well as providing the Healthcare Commission with patient-focused indicators to feed into the 2006-2007 performance ratings check for acute and specialist trusts.<br></h5><h3>Main Topics:</h3><h5>Topics covered included: admission to hospital; emergency care; the emergency department; waiting lists and planned admissions; hospital and ward conditions; care received from doctors and nurses; overall care and treatment; pain control; operations and procedures; leaving hospital; demographic characteristics.</h5> <h3>Coverage: </h3><h5> <br><i class='myclass'>Dates of Fieldwork: </i> September 2006 - November 2006 <br><i class='myclass'>Country: </i> England <br><i class='myclass'>Spatial Units: </i> Strategic Health Authorities (SHAs);Primary Care Trusts/Care Trusts <br><i class='myclass'>Observation Units: </i> Individuals <br><i class='myclass'>Kind of Data: </i> Numeric data; Alpha/numeric data; Individual (micro) level </h5> <h3>Universe Sampled: </h3><h5> <i class='myclass'>Location of Units of Observation:</i> National <br><i class='myclass'>Population:</i> Adults in England who had had at least one overnight stay in hospital between June and August 2006, and were not maternity or psychiatry patients. </h5> <h3>Methodology: </h3><h5> <i class='myclass'>Time Dimensions: </i> Repeated cross-sectional study<br> Part of a wider NHS patient survey programme. <br><i class='myclass'>Sampling Procedures: </i> Simple random sample<br> Each of the participating trusts identified a list of 850 eligible patients. The trusts were responsible for ensuring that their survey was carried out following the standard sampling and survey procedures, as set out in the guidance issued to them. <br><i class='myclass'>Number of Units:</i> Target: 141,447. Obtained: 80,694. <br><i class='myclass'>Method of Data Collection: </i> Postal survey <br><i class='myclass'>Weighting: </i> Weighting used. See documentation for details. </h5><h3>Language(s) of Written Materials: </h3> <h5>Study Description: English<br>Study Documentation: English<br></h5> <h3>Access: </h3><h5> <i class='myclass'>Access Conditions: </i> The depositor has specified that registration is required and standard conditions of use apply. The depositor may be informed about usage. See <a href='http://www.esds.ac.uk/orderingdata/termsandConditions.asp'>terms and conditions</a> for further information. <br><i class='myclass'>Availability: </i> ESDS Access and Preservation, UK Data Archive <br><i class='myclass'>External note: </i></b> To preserve respondent confidentiality, several variables within the <i>National Health Service Patient Survey Programme</i> datasets are routinely either removed or recoded before deposit at the UK Data Archive. These include variables covering age and ethnicity, and data for trusts where case numbers are very small. Should users require analysis by ethnicity or access to removed data, they should contact: <br><br> Caroline Powell<br> Deputy Chief Executive<br> Picker Institute Europe<br> King's Mead House<br> Oxpens Road<br> Oxford OX1 1RX<br> <br> Tel: +44 (0) 1865 208116<br> Fax: +44 (0) 1865 208101<br> <br> Email: caroline.powell@pickereurope.ac.uk<br> <a href="http://www.pickereurope.org" title="Picker Institute Europe">http://www.pickereurope.org</a> <br><i class='myclass'>Contact: </i></b> Help desk: help@esds.ac.uk<br> </h5> <h3>Date of First Release:</h3><h5> 11 September 2007<br></h5> <h3> Copyright: </h3> <h5> Care Quality Commission</h5> <br><br> <h3> File last updated: </h3> <h5>31 October 2011</h5> </body></html>