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: 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
Hospital Medicine 2019, March 24-27, National Harbor, Md.
Background: In an academic center, a physician team may be comprised of medical students, interns, residents, fellows and an attending. Patients encounter multiple members from the same physician team and this often leads to confusion in regards to their individual care. It is evident that this leads to patient confusion and misunderstandings can ensue. A […]
Abstract Number: 268
Hospital Medicine 2016, March 6-9, San Diego, Calif.
Background: : Low patient satisfaction can result in financial loss for hospitals, and potentially for individual physicians or groups and patient satisfaction is known to be lower on academic services.1 Increasingly, Medicare funds will be withheld from hospitals for underperformance in patient satisfaction due to Value Based Purchasing (VBP). We identified a low performing, academic […]