Search results for "Patient Satisfaction"
Hospitals fight back against violence
Hospitals and clinicians are increasingly recognizing workplace violence in the hospital as a problem and employing strategies to deal with it, or better yet, stop it before it happens.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2017/12/hospitals-fight-back-against-violence.htm
15 Dec 2017
Interactive voice response calls after hospital discharge may help smoking cessation rates
Patients received smoking cessation counseling in the hospital, followed by free smoking cessation medication and five automated interactive voice response calls over a three-month period.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2017/06/21/2.htm
21 Jun 2017
Standardized rounds, antibiotics and acute kidney injury, and more
Summaries from ACP Hospitalist Weekly.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2017/06/in-the-news.htm
15 Jun 2017
What happens when patients call their own rapid response?
A hospital finds surprising results from safety initiative.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2017/06/qa-rapid-response.htm
15 Jun 2017
Breaking language barriers with a phone call
An intervention used telephone access to expand translation services.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2017/05/success-story-translation-services.htm
15 May 2017
Standardized bedside attending rounds increased patient satisfaction
The study's intervention included huddling to establish the rounding schedule and priorities, conducting bedside rounds, integrating bedside nurses, entering orders in bedside computers, and updating patient-room whiteboards.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2017/03/01/1.htm
1 Mar 2017
Young hospitalists choosing locum tenens
Demand for temporary hospitalists is high
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2017/02/young-hospitalists-locum-tenens.htm
15 Feb 2017
Changing approaches to pain
Treating inpatients' pain is challenging in an opioid addiction epidemic.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2017/01/changing-approaches-to-pain.htm
15 Jan 2017
Under the same umbrella
Pros and cons of integrated hospitalist/ED staffing.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2016/11/integrated-hospitalist-ED.htm
15 Nov 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