Content Validity of Patient-Reported Measures Evaluating Experiences of the Quality of Transitions in Healthcare Settings - A Scoping Review.

No reviews so far have been conducted to define the constructs of patient-experienced quality in healthcare transitions or to identify existing generic measures of patients’ experience of the quality within healthcare transitions. Our aim was to identify domains relevant for people experiencing healthcare transitions when evaluating the quality of care they have received, map the comprehensiveness of existing PREMs, and evaluate the PREMs’ content validity. The methods was guided by the Joanna Briggs Institutes’ guidance for scoping reviews. The search was performed on 07 December 2021, in the electronic databases Medline (Ovid), Embase (Ovid), and Cinahl (EBSCO). The search identified 16,134 publications, and 172 studies were included for review. We identified 29 PREMs assessing at least one aspect of adults’ experience of transitions in healthcare. Summarising the content, we consider a model with two domains, organisational and human-relational, likely to be adequate. However, a more comprehensive analysis and adequate definition of the construct is needed. None of the PREMs were considered content valid.