A short generic patient experience questionnaire: howRwedevelopment and validation

Table 1 Length and readability

Instrument	No of items	No of words	FKG readability grade	Reading age
howRwe	4	29	2.2	7.2
NHS Friends & Family Test	1	44	6.6	11.6
GS-PEQ*	10	150	8.8	13.8
EUROPEP 2006*	23	214	8.1	13.1
PPE-15	15	467	7.1	12.1
NHS adult inpatient Survey 2013	76	3,353	7.3	12.3
GP patient survey 2014	62	2,922	6.8	11.8

*Note the word count and readability for GS-PEQ and EUROPEP 2006 are based on the translations of questions and instructions as presented in the original papers. For other surveys, we used the text from actual questionnaires, including instructions.

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