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PROMIS Healthcare Access Satisfaction

PROMIS. "Healthcare Access Satisfaction" scoring manual.

Key findings used in wiki

  • PROMIS measures healthcare access satisfaction as its own construct, with a 6-item adult short form and standardized T-score interpretation.
  • Higher T-scores mean more satisfaction with access — items focus on whether the person can get the care they need, when they need it, from providers they trust.
  • Access satisfaction is measured separately from general health or from illness burden because a person with light health needs can still be dissatisfied with access, and a person with heavy needs can still report good access when systems work for them.
  • In GiveCare's methodology pages, this supports including healthcare access as a structural pressure domain in GC-SDOH-30, rather than collapsing it into physical health or care-navigation burden — the access experience is itself a measurable signal.