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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 ...
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.
December 1, 2006 | Journal Article
Though patients are often asked to evaluate the performance of their physicians, positive bias and poor response rates may limit the usefulness of these evaluations. Unannounced standardized patients are actors who are trained to portray patients in ...
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 ...
June 4, 2008 | Story
Staff developed a dedicated position, the Call Back Clerk, and a user-friendly database to conduct individual patient follow-up calls after discharge from the ED.
May 17, 2012 | Program Result Report
Researchers at Emory University Department of Emergency Medicine analyzed data from two Atlanta emergency departments to ascertain barriers to achieving standard metrics of performance for treatment of patients with pneumonia.
November 1, 2011 | Story
RWJF Clinical Scholars find nonverbal communication plays a role in medical judgments.
January 31, 2008 | Story
For David T. Grande, MD, MPA, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health & Society Scholars provided a bridge to academia.
June 4, 2008 | Story
Staff began offering patients headphones and/or ear plugs during their admission in order to minimize the noise disturbance on the unit.
June 4, 2008 | Story
This provides parents and their children with uninterrupted time to sleep or spend quiet time together.