Search results for "Patient Satisfaction"
Recent Research
Hip fractures in nursing homes, cognitive impairment with TIA, beta-blockers before CABG, and more.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2014/12/rr.htm
15 Dec 2014
A different kind of competency
Juan Lopez, a Hispanic man with limited English proficiency, is admitted to your hospital with severe abdominal pain. You think he needs surgery, but he insists that the pain is the result of a hex, and requests treatment from a witch doctor. How do you respond?.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2008/03/cover.htm
15 Mar 2008
Embracing the spiritual
Most patients don't want their physicians to play God, but discussing God is another matter.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2012/03/qa.htm
15 Mar 2012
Clinical decision support tool reduced nighttime vital checks but not delirium
The tool used real-time patient data and a trained prediction algorithm to notify the hospitalist if the patient had a high likelihood of nighttime vital sign measurements within reference ranges.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2022/01/12/clinical-decision-support-tool-reduced-nighttime-vital-checks-but-not-delirium.htm
12 Jan 2022
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
Diuretic guidance, endocarditis risks, and more
Research summaries from ACP Hospitalist Weekly.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2021/06/recent-research.htm
15 Jun 2021
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
Top Hospitalists
The 2018 Top Hospitalists issue profiles 10 physicians with very diverse backgrounds and interests.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2018/11/top-docs.htm
15 Nov 2018
Tablets aren't just for doctors anymore
As part of a pilot, St. Rita's Medical Center in Lima, Ohio, distributed tablets with patient-centric software to patients on a cardiac step-down unit.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2014/03/success.htm
15 Mar 2014
Letter from the Editor
There’s been more talk than ever lately about patient satisfaction, due in part to CMS’s recent inclusion of patient satisfaction data on its Hospital Compare Web site.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2008/07/editor.htm
15 Jul 2008