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Abstract Number: 56
SHM Converge 2024
Background: Fewer than one in three patients can correctly name a physician on their inpatient care team. Despite the fact, factors associated with correctly naming a physician have not been adequately explored. This study evaluates whether physician behaviors and patient characteristics are associated with a patient’s ability to correctly name their hospitalist physician. Methods: We […]
Abstract Number: 65
Hospital Medicine 2017, May 1-4, 2017; Las Vegas, Nev.
Background: Studies have shown a direct relationship between patient satisfaction and patients following their physician’s recommendations which leads to favorable patient outcomes. While several physician and patient-specific characteristics have been found to be associated with patient satisfaction, the effect of patient’s spirituality on patient satisfaction with hospitalization has not been examined. Methods: Hospitalized patients older […]
Abstract Number: 87
Hospital Medicine 2016, March 6-9, San Diego, Calif.
Background: Pain remains a major concern for medically hospitalized adults, and pain treatment is a focus of hospital quality reporting and improvement efforts. Pharmacologic treatment during hospitalization for acute pain and cancer pain rest on some evidence, but as many as 1 in 3 adult medical inpatients suffer from chronic pain. Little is known about […]
Abstract Number: 94
Hospital Medicine 2016, March 6-9, San Diego, Calif.
Background: Correct inhaler technique for COPD medications is essential to achieving optimum delivery into the lungs. Evidence suggests that poor technique is widespread and linked to poor efficacy and adherence. However, the direct relationship between inhaler technique and health status has not been investigated. Methods: Data from a 2013 US survey dataset of COPD patients […]
Abstract Number: A4
SHM Converge 2022
Background: As patient satisfaction surveys become a routine part of physician performance evaluations, it is increasingly important to study the tools that are utilized to evaluate this performance. Little research has been performed to assess the metrics of these tools. Top box percentage is frequently used to report physician performance but the relationship of top […]
Abstract Number: G3
SHM Converge 2022
Background: Rhode Island was hard hit by the COVID pandemic due to a particularly toxic combination of demographic factors. It is a densely populated state, with a large immigrant population. The populace is older, poorer, and less educated than the rest of New England. At Kent Hospital, in Warwick, Rhode Island, the first case in […]
Abstract Number: J3
SHM Converge 2022
Background: Patient surveys are frequently utilized to assess patient satisfaction with physician performance. These surveys often impact provider evaluations and may even effect reimbursement and employment. Patient satisfaction surveys often have several questions designed to assess distinct aspects of physician performance. Institutions may select specific questions for their individual performance measures rather than all results. […]
Abstract Number: 105
Hospital Medicine 2018; April 8-11; Orlando, Fla.
Background: In most hospitals, physicians provide care to patients across multiple units while nurses are often unit-based, resulting in team dispersion, and potentially impairing teamwork. Geographically localized care teams may demonstrate improved communication between team members and with patients, potentially enhancing coordination of care. However, the impact of geographically localized teams on patient experience scores […]
Abstract Number: 106
Hospital Medicine 2018; April 8-11; Orlando, Fla.
Background: Hospitalized patients placed on contact, droplet, or respiratory isolation due to a carrier state or infection with resistant or highly communicable organisms report higher rates of anxiety and loneliness and have fewer physician encounters, room entries, vital sign records, physician and nursing notes in the chart. For these reasons, it has been hypothesized that […]
Abstract Number: 166
SHM Converge 2024
Background: Patient satisfaction surveys have taken increased importance over the last years, and data is increasingly used to rate and compare hospitals. Studies that analyzed the association between patient satisfaction and reviews with quality outcomes and hospital ratings have yielded conflicting results. We sought to analyze how HCAPS ratings and internet reviews correlated with hospital […]