Cindy Brach
Biographic Data
| ID | 5534339 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Cindy Brach |
| GIVEN NAMES | Cindy |
| FAMILY NAME | Brach |
| SIGNATURE | BRACH C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3600-8402 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
After The Demonstration
Development of the Patient Education Materials Assessment Tool (Pemat)
Development of Items to Assess Patients’ Health Literacy Experiences at Hospitals for the Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (CAHPS) Hospital Survey
BACKGROUND: The complexity of health information frequently exceeds patients' skills to understand and use it. Improvement in hospital communication has the potential to improve the quality of care. OBJECTIVE: To develop a set of items to supplement the Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (CAHPS) Hospital Survey (HCAHPS) to assess how well hospitals communicate health information to inpatients. METHODS: We conducted an environ…
Assessing Patient Experiences of Providers' Cultural Competence and Health Literacy Practices
Development and Evaluation of CAHPS® Survey Items Assessing How Well Healthcare Providers Address Health Literacy
BACKGROUND: The complexity of health information often exceeds patients' skills to understand and use it. OBJECTIVE: To develop survey items assessing how well healthcare providers communicate health information. METHODS: Domains and items for the Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (CAHPS) Item Set for Addressing Health Literacy were identified through an environmental scan and input from stakeholders. The draft item set was …
Evidence On The Chronic Care Model In The New Millennium
Developed more than a decade ago, the Chronic Care Model (CCM) is a widely adopted approach to improving ambulatory care that has guided clinical quality initiatives in the United States and around the world. We examine the evidence of the CCM's effectiveness by reviewing articles published since 2000 that used one of five key CCM papers as a reference. Accumulated evidence appears to support the CCM as an integrated framework to guide practice r…
Integrating Literacy, Culture, and Language to Improve Health Care Quality for Diverse Populations
Can Cultural Competency Reduce Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities? A Review and Conceptual Model
This article develops a conceptual model of cultural competency’s potential to reduce racial and ethnic health disparities, using the cultural competency and disparities literature to lay the foundation for the model and inform assessments of its validity. The authors identify nine major cultural competency techniques: interpreter services, recruitment and retention policies, training, coordinating with traditional healers, use of community healt…
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Can Cultural Competency Reduce Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities? A Review and Conceptual Model
This article develops a conceptual model of cultural competency’s potential to reduce racial and ethnic health disparities, using the cultural competency and disparities literature to lay the foundation for the model and inform assessments of its validity. The authors identify nine major cultural competency techniques: interpreter services, recruitment and retention policies, training, coordinating with traditional healers, use of community healt…
Integrating Literacy, Culture, and Language to Improve Health Care Quality for Diverse Populations
Evidence On The Chronic Care Model In The New Millennium
Developed more than a decade ago, the Chronic Care Model (CCM) is a widely adopted approach to improving ambulatory care that has guided clinical quality initiatives in the United States and around the world. We examine the evidence of the CCM's effectiveness by reviewing articles published since 2000 that used one of five key CCM papers as a reference. Accumulated evidence appears to support the CCM as an integrated framework to guide practice r…
Development of Items to Assess Patients’ Health Literacy Experiences at Hospitals for the Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (CAHPS) Hospital Survey
BACKGROUND: The complexity of health information frequently exceeds patients' skills to understand and use it. Improvement in hospital communication has the potential to improve the quality of care. OBJECTIVE: To develop a set of items to supplement the Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (CAHPS) Hospital Survey (HCAHPS) to assess how well hospitals communicate health information to inpatients. METHODS: We conducted an environ…
Assessing Patient Experiences of Providers' Cultural Competence and Health Literacy Practices
Development and Evaluation of CAHPS® Survey Items Assessing How Well Healthcare Providers Address Health Literacy
BACKGROUND: The complexity of health information often exceeds patients' skills to understand and use it. OBJECTIVE: To develop survey items assessing how well healthcare providers communicate health information. METHODS: Domains and items for the Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (CAHPS) Item Set for Addressing Health Literacy were identified through an environmental scan and input from stakeholders. The draft item set was …
Development of the Patient Education Materials Assessment Tool (Pemat)
After The Demonstration
Medicine (7 works) · Health care (5 works) · Nursing (5 works) · Psychology (5 works) · Business (3 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Health literacy (3 works) · Health Literacy and Information Accessibility (3 works) · Literacy (3 works) · Patient-Provider Communication in Healthcare (3 works)