Search results for "Patient Satisfaction"
Hospitals with more hospitalists have higher patient satisfaction
Hospitals with a higher percentage of hospitalists performed modestly better on most measures of patient satisfaction, a new study found.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2013/01/16/1.htm
16 Jan 2013
Could less be more in care transitions?
Interventions to improve the quality of care transitions may work better when they are less complex, say researchers who offer some ideas for future efforts.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2024/01/31/could-less-be-more-in-care-transitions.htm
31 Jan 2024
Patient satisfaction with hospitalists matches results for PCPs
Patients were about equally satisfied when they were cared for by hospitalists or primary care physicians, a new study found.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2011/11/09/1.htm
9 Nov 2011
July 2008
ACP Hospitalist provides hospital-based physicians with news and information about the practice of hospital medicine.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2008/07/
Communications interventions at discharge may improve readmissions, adherence
A meta-analysis showed that readmission rates among patients who received communication interventions at discharge were 9.1% compared to 13.5% among those who did not. Patient satisfaction was also significantly higher: 60.9% were satisfied versus 49.5% of controls.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2021/09/01/4.htm
1 Sep 2021
A better team, with the same outcomes
Why did only nurses see an improvement from a teamwork intervention at four hospitals? A hospitalist researcher offers his thoughts.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2023/12/20/a-better-team-with-the-same-outcomes.htm
20 Dec 2023
October 2016
ACP Hospitalist provides hospital-based physicians with news and information about the practice of hospital medicine.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2016/10/
Telehospitalist program reduced length of stay at a rural VHA hospital, study finds
Readmission rates did not improve with telemedicine, but patients and clinicians at both the hub and spoke hospitals were highly satisfied with a Veterans Health Administration (VHA) telehospitalist pilot program.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2021/02/24/3.htm
24 Feb 2021
February 2009
ACP Hospitalist provides hospital-based physicians with news and information about the practice of hospital medicine.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2009/02/
Decision-making preferences of hospitalized patients linked to care satisfaction, trust
In a survey study of hospitalized patients, most of them African American, those who disagreed with leaving medical decisions to their physicians were more likely to be dissatisfied with their care and lack confidence and trust in their physicians compared with those who agreed.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2020/10/07/2.htm
7 Oct 2020