Request for Measures of Health Plan Efforts To Address Health Plan Members' Health Literacy Needs

概要

The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) is soliciting the submission of instruments or items that measure how well health plans and health providers address health plan enrollees' health literacy needs and how well they communicate with health plan enrollees. This initiative is in response to the need identified by AHRQ to develop a new supplemental item set (the "new instrument") for addressing health literacy for the CAHPS[supreg] Health Plan Survey. The intent of the planned survey is to gain patients' perspective on how well health and health plan information is communicated to them by healthcare professionals and health plans. The results of the planned survey may become an important source of information for health plans, clinicians, group practices, and other interested parties assessing quality of health information or planning changes in how health plan information is delivered to health plan enrollees. Based on prior work, there are several functional areas that the new instrument could address. Depending on the communication mode, the new instrument could assess, for example, clarity and simplicity of provided health information related to: (a) Preventive s