Meeting
Abstract Number: 250
Hospital Medicine 2020, Virtual Competition
Background: Patients feel “uncomfortable, vulnerable, and exposed” in their gowns while providers are distressed at seeing and caring for their fellow human beings clad in sub-human “threadbare,” “ugly” garments. The purpose of this study was to create a patient gown based on design suggestions by patients and providers (physicians and nurses) and to refine the […]
Abstract Number: 322
Hospital Medicine 2019, March 24-27, National Harbor, Md.
Background: Although the intended purpose of the hospital gown is not to cause harm, it reinforces the role of being subordinate to the physician. Gowns put patients in a vulnerable position because they can be readily exposed all day. The identical, interchangeable patient gown reinforces the role of the lowly patient in the hospital hierarchy, […]