management for patients with chronic conditions is often condition-specific. How does the CAHPS PCMH Survey handle this?
The CAHPS PCMH Survey includes questions about self-management for patients with chronic conditions; these questions are designed to be applicable to adult and pediatric patients regardless of the specific chronic condition. For example, one item defines monitoring with examples from a variety of chronic conditions and asks whether patients have talked with their provider about monitoring their health. This approach minimizes the need to do targeted sampling of individuals with specific chronic conditions, and avoids having to include condition-specific items and complicated skip patterns.
