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ArticleJournal of patient experience2022

Studying the Experience of Care Through Latent Class Analysis: An Application to Italian Neonatal Intensive Care Units.

Nicola Spezia, Mara Soncin, Cristina Masella, Tommaso Agasisti

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Article in Journal of patient experience, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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Nicola SpeziaDepartment of Management, Economics, and Industrial Engineering, Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5116-0299
Mara SoncinDepartment of Management, Economics, and Industrial Engineering, Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy.
Cristina MasellaDepartment of Management, Economics, and Industrial Engineering, Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy.
Tommaso AgasistiDepartment of Management, Economics, and Industrial Engineering, Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy.

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Abstract

Though many data on the experience of care of patients and caregivers are collected, they are rarely used to improve the quality of health care delivery. One of the main causes is the widespread struggle in interpreting and enhancing these data, requiring the introduction of new techniques to extract intelligible, meaningful, and actionable information. This research explores the potentiality of the latent class analysis (LCA) statistical model in studying experience data. A cross-sectional survey was administered to 482 parents of infants hospitalized in several Italian neonatal intensive care units. Through a 3-step LCA, four subgroups of parents with specific experience profiles, sociodemographic characteristics, and levels of satisfaction were identified. These were composed of parents who reported (1) a positive experience (36%), (2) problematic communication with unit staff (30%), (3) limited access to the unit and poor participation in their baby's care (26%), and (4) a negative experience (8%). Through its explorative segmentation, LCA can provide valuable information to design quality improvement interventions tailored to the specific needs and concerns of each subgroup.

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experience of carefamily-centered careItaly‌latent class analysisneonatal intensive care unitparent experiencepatient experience

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PMCPMC9260577

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