The presence of many attendants disturbs their and other patients in wards and also creates hurdles for hospital staff to perform their duties. This is also a fact that attendants spare their time to accompany patients and have to face various problems in hospitals. Unfortunately, hospitals have ...
Health care professionals who engage in open disclosure must be able to negotiate appropriate ways through complex and sensitive discussions. The responses of patients and relatives are not always predictable and even the best open disclosure practice may not resolve problems and concerns. Guidance, ...
Healthcare must shift its focus from viewing patients as “customers” and instead consider patients as “partners” within the broader healthcare ecosystem. All of the exciting innovation underway (including the increased adoption of virtual care and telehealth) should reflect what is required for th...
Five patients per nurse is the optimal ratio for general medicine floors in the United States. When facilities are understaffed, the ratio climbs to six, eight, even one-to-twelve at some of our rural hospitals. When someone deals with these acutely ill patients, they may have 12 IV dri...
The challenges of cognitive overload, care plan orchestration, and system fragmentation are evident in the current healthcare landscape, where patients often face fragmented journeys and delays. Let’s take a look at a routine oncologist visit. After a PSA test, results are ...
It is prevalent in developing continents like Africa with limited access to health care interventions [11, 12]. Ethiopia is among the highest RHD or RHD-endemic nations in the world [13, 14]. Adult RHD studies documented a significant burden of behavioral problems among RHD patients [15, ...
This paper attempts to analyse some of the complex problems that face primary health care practice in the developed world today. These are shown to be a de... FM Hull - 《Social Science & Medicine》 被引量: 3发表: 1987年 Patients' with asplenia and doctors' experiences in implementing pre...
"A slap in the face": Institutional betrayal, burnout, and career choice regret among frontline health care workers serving COVID‐19 patients The COVID‐19 pandemic has exacted a physical and mental health toll on health care and hospital workers (HHWs). To provide COVID‐19 care, HHWs ex...
Gallup believes that focusing on patients, physicians, nursesandstaff is the only sure way for the healthcare industry to achieve its goals. For healthcare organizations of the future, this means holding their care teams' wellbeing at the same level as their other primary goals. In other words...
The increasing frequency of epidemic, climate, and political crisis situations, compounded by modern life stress, is associated with a rise in mental healt