Effect of caregiver and decedent characteristics on CAHPS hospice survey scores

To ensure fair comparisons across hospices, CAHPS Hospice Survey measure scores should be adjusted for several caregiver and decedent characteristics. The characteristics that wer more predictive of caregivers' survey responses were payer for hospice care, caregiver education, and survey language / language spoken at home. Lack of appropriate adjustment would incorrectly rank hospices by 1.2 - 5.4 percentile points. (Parast L, Haas A, Tolpadi A, Elliott MN, Teno J, Zaslavsky AM, Anhang Price R. Effects of caregiver and decedent characteristics on CAHPS hospice survey scores. J Pain Symptom Manage 2018; 56:4, 519-529.)