Search results for "Patient Satisfaction"
Mobile apps enter the hospital
An expert discusses which apps hospitalists should know about and how they can begin to prescribe them.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2015/12/mobile-apps.htm
15 Dec 2015
Truly be the “PCP in the hospital”
When patients are most in need of a familiar face, they often must trust the stranger who was assigned to walk in their door. But it doesn't have to be that way.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2016/04/perspectives-PCP.htm
15 Apr 2016
A money-back guarantee for hospital care
A goal of the program is to identify flaws in the health care system's processes.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2016/04/success-story-patient-satisfaction.htm
15 Apr 2016
Sickest patients score hospital clinicians lower on responsiveness, communication
Overall, patients judged to be at high risk of dying were less likely to choose the top box score for all Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems survey domains.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2016/06/08/2.htm
8 Jun 2016
Improving the patient experience by focusing on spiritual care
Hospitalists can identify needs, collaborate with chaplains.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2016/06/spiritual-care.htm
15 Jun 2016
How academic hospitalists can manage workload
Academic hospitalists must balance what has been called the 3 shields: practice, teaching, and research.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2016/06/workload-academic-medicine.htm
15 Jun 2016
Rounding's not just for clinicians
Hospitalists work to make rounds more patient-centered.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2016/08/patient-centered-rounding.htm
15 Aug 2016
Psych teams
Psychiatric comanagement brings expert care to vulnerable patients.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2016/08/psychiatric-comanagement.htm
15 Aug 2016
Direct hospital employment of physicians rising, with no apparent impact on care quality
The retrospective cohort study included all U.S. nonfederal acute care hospitals, comparing those that employed physicians, those that had looser affiliated relationships, and those that were unaffiliated, having no association with physicians beyond the traditional medical staff model.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2016/09/21/1.htm
21 Sep 2016
Taking communication skills seriously
Formal training can improve patient satisfaction, physician burnout.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2016/10/communication-training.htm
15 Oct 2016