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ArticleJournal of patient experience2026

Does Patient Experience Correlate With Overall Hospital Quality Ratings?

Samer Badr, Tarek Nahle, Shakibur Rahman, Amine Al Soueidy, Martha Stefaniak, Marisha Burden, Jean-Sebastien Rachoin

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Article in Journal of patient experience, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors.

Samer BadrCenter of Hospital-Based Services, Cooper University Healthcare, Camden, NJ, USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6276-5402
Tarek NahleDepartment of Medical Education, Université Saint-Joseph, Beirut, Lebanon.
Shakibur RahmanCooper Medical School of Rowan University, Camden, NJ, USA.
Amine Al SoueidyDepartment of Medicine, Cooper University Healthcare, Camden, NJ, USA.
Martha StefaniakClinical Effectiveness Department, Cooper University Healthcare, Camden, NJ, USA.
Marisha BurdenDivision of Hospital Medicine, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, CO, USA.
Jean-Sebastien RachoinCenter of Hospital-Based Services, Cooper University Healthcare, Camden, NJ, USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6322-092X

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Publicly reported patient experience (PE) scores and overall hospital quality and safety ratings (QSR) increasingly influence consumers' healthcare choices and reimbursement, but their correlation remains unclear. We analyzed 2,384 adult US acute care hospitals' public data from Google® (Google), the Leapfrog Group® (Leapfrog), Hospital Compare

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CAHPS / HCAHPSpatient experiencepatient-reported experience measurespatient safetyquality improvement

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PMID42254548
PMCPMC13237466

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