Beverly A Weidmer
Biographic Data
| ID | 5534338 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Beverly A Weidmer |
| GIVEN NAMES | Beverly A |
| FAMILY NAME | Weidmer |
| SIGNATURE | WEIDMER B A |
| AFFILIATIONS | RAND, Santa Monica, CA, USA |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 3 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Culturally Competent Informed-Consent Process to Evaluate a Social Policy for Older Persons With Low Literacy
The informed-consent process seeks to provide complete information to participants about a research project and to protect personal information they may disclose. In this article, we present an informed-consent process that we piloted and improved to obtain consent from older adults in Yucatan, Mexico. Respondents had limited fluency in Spanish, spoke the local Mayan language, and had some physical limitations due to their age. We describe how we…
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…
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 …
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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…
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 …
Culturally Competent Informed-Consent Process to Evaluate a Social Policy for Older Persons With Low Literacy
The informed-consent process seeks to provide complete information to participants about a research project and to protect personal information they may disclose. In this article, we present an informed-consent process that we piloted and improved to obtain consent from older adults in Yucatan, Mexico. Respondents had limited fluency in Spanish, spoke the local Mayan language, and had some physical limitations due to their age. We describe how we…
Literacy (3 works) · Medicine (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Business (2 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Family medicine (2 works) · Health care (2 works) · Health literacy (2 works) · Health Literacy and Information Accessibility (2 works) · Nursing (2 works)