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ArticleJournal of orthopaedic surgery and research2020

Evaluating opportunities for improved orthopedics outpatient satisfaction: an analysis of Press Ganey® Outpatient Medical Practice Survey responses.

Andrew R Stephens, Tyson J Rowberry, Andrew R Tyser, Nikolas H Kazmers

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Article in Journal of orthopaedic surgery and research, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT07041528 (How Do Patients and Health Care Professionals Perceive De-implementation of Routine Follow-ups After Total Hip and Knee Arthroplasty? Protocol for a Nested Qualitative Study Within a Hybrid De-implementation Trial), which is not on this map. Cited by 10 papers.

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

NCT07041528 not yet recruitingnot on this mapstarted 2026, after this paper: background citation

How Do Patients and Health Care Professionals Perceive De-implementation of Routine Follow-ups After Total Hip and Knee Arthroplasty? Protocol for a Nested Qualitative Study Within a Hybrid De-implementation Trial

TypeobservationalSponsorTergooi Medical CenterRan2026 to 2028Enrolled90ConditionsHip Arthroplasty, Total, Knee Arthroplasty, Total
3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

10 citing papers in PubMed, 22 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Andrew R StephensUniversity of Utah, School of Medicine, 30 N 1900 E, Salt Lake City, UT, 84132, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3877-7723
Tyson J RowberryUniversity of Utah, School of Medicine, 30 N 1900 E, Salt Lake City, UT, 84132, USA.
Andrew R TyserDepartment of Orthopaedics, University of Utah, 590 Wakara Way, Salt Lake City, UT, 84108, USA.
Nikolas H KazmersDepartment of Orthopaedics, University of Utah, 590 Wakara Way, Salt Lake City, UT, 84108, USA. nkazmers@gmail.com.
University of Utah · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

introductionThe Press Ganey® Outpatient Medical Practice Survey (PGOMPS) is composed of 10 provider-specific and 15 non-provider-specific questions. Some healthcare systems link PGOMS overall scores to physician reimbursements. The aim of this study was to determine the frequency of patient satisfaction across individual PGOMPS question, the null hypothesis being that there was no variability between the frequency of satisfaction and similar questions.

methodsWe reviewed all new patient orthopedic PGOMPS scores between January 2014 and December 2017. Due to the large ceiling effect, satisfaction was defined as a perfect total score. The frequency of perfect scores for each question was calculated.

resultsFive thousand one hundred sixty-three patients met the inclusion criteria. Two thousand two hundred sixty-six (43.89%) provider-specific questions received perfect satisfaction versus 986 (19.10%) with perfect satisfaction for non-provider-specific questions (p <  0.001). The five questions most likely to receive perfect satisfaction were MD friendliness/courtesy (80.36), MD spoke using clear language (80.35%), likelihood to recommend practice (79.11%), likelihood to recommend MD (78.8%), and MD confidence (78.74%). The five least likely were convenience of office hours (60.44%), ease of getting on phone (59.72%), ability to get desired appointment (59.50%), wait time (54.63%), and information about delays (53.80%).

conclusionsOur results suggest that the majority of orthopedic patients are satisfied with their provider, demonstrating that room for improvement is limited with provider-specific areas. Leaders of health care teams should consider these results when seeking to improve patient satisfaction scores and determining how and if scores should be linked to reimbursements.

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Physician-Patient RelationsAdolescentAdultAgedFemaleHumansMaleMiddle AgedOrthopedicsPatient SatisfactionSurveys and QuestionnairesYoung AdultPatient satisfactionPress GaneyReimbursements

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PMID31992339
PMCPMC6986136
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