Linking to the CAHPS Web Site

The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) welcomes links to the CAHPS Web site at http://www.cahps.ahrq.gov.

AHRQ prefers that you link directly to the CAHPS Home Page. If you want to link to specific items within the Web site rather than the Home Page, please notify us and provide the relevant URLs by e-mail: cahps1@ahrq.gov

All external links from commercial sites to this Federal Government site should be clearly identified as such. AHRQ cannot endorse, nor appear to endorse, commercial services or products. Links should not be displayed in any manner that would imply such an endorsement.

Please send any questions to cahps1@ahrq.gov.

Text To Describe CAHPS

The U.S. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality’s (AHRQ) CAHPS program develops and promotes the use of standardized surveys of patients’ experiences with health care. The CAHPS site provides free access to these surveys as well as descriptive information, aggregated data for comparison purposes, and guidance on administering the surveys and using the results.

Key Words

The following key words characterize the offerings on our Web site:

Composite measures
Consumer experience
Dental plan quality
Experience of care
Health plan quality
Home health quality
Improving patients’ experiences
Medical group quality
Nursing home quality
Patient experience
Physician quality
Quality improvement
Patient questionnaire
Reporting measures
Patient survey

For Additional Information

Contact:
Randie Siegel
Associate Director
Office of Communications and Knowledge Transfer
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
Eisenberg Building
540 Gaither Road, Suite 2000
Rockville, MD 20850
Phone: (301) 427-1852
Fax: (301) 427-1873
E-mail: randie.siegel@ahrq.hhs.gov

Current as of July 2009