NSQIP Impacts Patient Experience

Project RED Impacts Patient Experience

Background Hospitalized patients are frequently unprepared to care for themselves after discharge often leading to unplanned hospital readmission. One strategy to reduce readmission rates is improving the quality of patient education and preparation before hospital discharge. The ReEngineered Discharge (RED) is a standardized hospital-based program designed to provide patients and caregivers th...

NSQIP and urology outcomes.

Address correspondence to Dr. Harold A. Frazier II, Department of Urology, George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences, 2150 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20037 USA NSQIP and urology outcomes Harold A. Frazier, II, MD Department of Urology, George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences, Washington, DC, USA Referring to the article publishe...

Impacts of patient characteristics on hospital care experience in 34,000 Swedish patients

BACKGROUND Standardized patient surveys are widely used for assessing quality of healthcare from the patient perspective. An important purpose of such surveys is to identify disparities in care among different patient groups. The purpose of this study was to 1.) evaluate aspects of the validity of the adapted Swedish version of the Picker Patient Care Experience -15 (PPE-15) survey and 2.) exam...

Defining Patient Experience

In recent years, perceptions of performance and quality of healthcare organizations have begun to move beyond examining the provision of excellent clinical care, alone, and to consider and embrace the patient experience as an important indicator. There is a need to determine the extent to which clear and formal definitions exist, have common overarching themes, and/or have unique, but important...

Patient experience of overtreatment.