Advocates of patient experience metrics argue that systematic routine measurement of patient satisfaction is a powerful quality improvement tool for physicians and health plans.1While we do not believe that patient satisfaction should be disregarded, our data suggest that we do not fully understand what...
Advocates of patient experience metrics argue that systematic routine measurement of patient satisfaction is a powerful quality improvement tool for physicians and health plans.1 While we do not believe that patient satisfaction should be disregarded, our data suggest that we do not fully understand wha...
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In the past years, there has been a significant rise in healthcare costs that can be attributed to the rapidly increasing complexity of healthcare in general, and oncology care specifically. The rising costs threatens the sustainability of current healthcare services, especially in the field of ca...
“care where people are consulted on all aspects of their care, and care is focused on the whole person, care is planned in partnership with the patient and their carers and family as agreed with the person or their advocates” [35]. While this definition is clearer than that in the NSW...
This top down fear and intimidation leaves patients without their best advocates, their physicians- ironically, amidst a pandemic, when one would think it is our nation’s physicians we need the most. Yet, there is hope. Half of physicians remain in private practice, subservient only to our ...
advocates for recording the surgical time-out (or other events) in the OR with the intent of using the playback in a constructive manner to improve teamwork. Similarly, we have mentioned in several prior columns the LOSA (Line Operations Safety Audits) audits done in aviation. In these, ...
Panelists explained that for the time being labor advocates are not “clambering” for change; labor representatives perceive California’s system stability as a good thing for injured workers. Notwithstanding, it is expected that applicant attorneys will continue to make their argument opposing certain...
In addition to positive effects of introducing the term SV, there have also been calls to abandon it [8,11,12]. Patient advocates and some physicians are sometimes uncomfortable and dissatisfied with the term [8,11,12]. One major reason given is that it seems to remove the accountability ...