Believing in Design: Return to Mayo Transform
October 4, 2012 | Pioneering Ideas Blog Post
Al Shar discusses the intersection between design and medical professionals.
Patient Concerns
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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.
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.
The Impact of International Medical Graduate Status on Primary Care Physicians' Choice of Specialist
August 1, 2004 | Journal Article
About one fourth of practicing physicians in the United States graduated from medical schools in other countries. While much attention has been given to their role in the physician workforce, less attention has been given to the impact international ...
Medical Authority and the Culture of Rights
August 1, 2004 | Journal Article
The current article is a review of Paul Starr's analysis in the Social Transformation of American Medicine (1982) and its impact on health care activism and the medical profession. Halpern asserts that Starr does not adequately investigate the proce ...
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 ...