Believing in Design: Return to Mayo Transform
October 4, 2012 | Pioneering Ideas Blog Post
Al Shar discusses the intersection between design and medical professionals.
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Does Fear of Being Labeled "Difficult" Prevent Patients from Expressing Themselves to Doctors?
June 4, 2012 | Human Capital Blog Post
HCB: You conducted six focus groups, with 48 patients, to better understand how they felt about obstacles to shared decision making. Tell us what you found. Frosch: Patients absolutely want to collaborate with their physicians in making clinical dec ...
Recession Likely Cause of Drop in Doctor Visits, Prescription Medications
April 30, 2012 | Human Capital Blog Post
Americans visited their doctors less often and took fewer medications in 2011, according to a study released this month by the IMS Institute for Healthcare Informatics. The likely cause: financial pressures. “The Use of Medicines in the United State ...
Patients' Perception of Hospital Care in the United States
October 30, 2008 | Journal Article
An exploration of patient perspectives on hospital care found moderately high levels of patient satisfaction with care and a relationship between higher nurse to patient-days ratio and patient satisfaction. Efforts to improve hospital care would benefit from addressing patient perspectives.
Research Paper Encourages Organized Patient Involvement in MCOs
November 1, 2002 | Program Result Report
The Indiana University School of Public and Environmental Affairs prepared and disseminated a publication exploring opportunities for patient representation in managed care organizations (MCOs).
Substituted Judgment
September 1, 2008 | Journal Article
An exploration of decision-making for seriously ill patients reviewed the research findings on substituted judgment and posited alternative perspectives such as community and narrative approaches.
What Does 'Respect' Mean?
May 1, 2007 | Commentary
Exploring the Moral Obligation of Health Professionals to Respect Patients
The Physician-Surrogate Relationship
June 11, 2007 | Journal Article
Physicians and surrogates must establish a unique relationship with each other that is very different from the traditional physician-surrogate relationship.
A Measure of Trust in Insurers
February 1, 2006 | Journal Article
This study created a conceptual framework for trust in health care organizations based on theory and empirical studies to develop a comprehensive, reliable measure of trust in health insurers. Items from this conceptual framework were used in a stru ...
Distrust of the Health Care System and Self-Reported Health in the United States
April 1, 2006 | Journal Article
Distrust of the health care system and the extent to which it is related to self-reported health were examined in the current study. Random digit dialing telephone surveys were conducted with a national sample of 961 adults. Factors such as primary ...