Consumer Assessment Surveys
The Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (CAHPS) program is a multi-year initiative of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) to support and promote the assessment of consumers' experiences with health care.
First launched in October 1995, the program has expanded beyond its original focus on health plans to address a range of health care services and meet the information needs of health care consumers, purchasers, health plans, providers, and policymakers.
The goals of the CAHPS program are twofold:
- Develop standardized patient surveys that can be used to compare results across sponsors and over time.
- Generate tools and resources that sponsors can use to produce understandable and usable comparative information for both consumers and health care providers.
Visit the CAHPS Web site.
