Meeting
Abstract Number: 19
SHM Converge 2021
Background: Patient-physician communication is essential to medical care. Simple physician behaviors, such as sitting at the bedside, may bolster patient-physician communication.1-3 Yet despite the potential benefit of sitting, prior work suggests that inpatient physicians do not sit frequently.1,4 Methods: Trained staff performed in-person surveys of patients admitted to seven general internal medicine teaching services from […]
Abstract Number: 31
SHM Converge 2023
Background: Effectively communicating information to a patient is the driving force for a successful physician-patient relationship. Patient outcomes depend on successful communication. As efficiency metrics and clinical productivity remain top priorities for most health systems, time spent with each patient gets affected hindering effective patient-physician communication. This in turn affects the HCAHPS (Hospital Consumer Assessment […]
Abstract Number: 41
Hospital Medicine 2019, March 24-27, National Harbor, Md.
Background: Sitting at the bedside improves patients’ perception of their interactions with their physicians. Despite these data, prior work shows that medicine interns sit during only 9% of observed physician-patient interactions. We aimed to assess perceived importance of and barriers to sitting at the bedside among a group of internal medicine residents. These results have […]
Abstract Number: 53
SHM Converge 2023
Background: Effective provider communication improves patients’ satisfaction, engagement, and health outcomes. Sitting at the bedside may improve communication; however, many providers do not regularly sit during inpatient encounters. We conducted a controlled pre-post evaluation of adding wall-mounted folding chairs inside the entrance of patient rooms, coupled with education, to increase sitting at the bedside by […]