Patient Surveys - What Patients Want

Brief Summary

Detailed Description

The practice of patient surveys for quality management is revised at the University Hospital Basel (USB). One aspect is a more versatile data acquisition via online portals and/or paper questionnaires, another aspect is the content of questions and the assessment of demographic data. In this situation a tentative survey on their preferences in this context was realised in patients who were treated in autumn 2016 at the Department of Orthopaedics and Trauma Surgery (DOTS) using a cover letter informing them about the nature of the survey. They were asked to provide few basic demographic data, they were furthermore asked whether they favoured surveys by the USB and if so with which focus. Finally they had the option to name three central topics for feedback and to quantify the number of questionnaires they had so far received by the USB. The survey could be completed in a paper and survey monkey based internet version accessible via a Quick Response (QR) code or link.

Primary Outcomes

Secondary Outcomes

• patients' preferences asking for their most pressing topics(after out- or inpatient treatment at the DOTS in a three months period in autumn 2016)