Handoff of patient information during shift report between nurses is a time of risk and liability. A quality improvement project was conducted on a 23-bed inpatient unit to measure the value of a bedside change-of-shift report in improving the effectiveness of shift report. Indicators including end-of-shift overtime, call light usage, nurse perceptions, and patient satisfaction were impacted by...

Inpatients use call lights to seek nurses' assistance. Although implied in patient safety, no studies have analyzed data related to the use of or response time to call lights collected by existing tracking mechanisms monitoring nursing practice. This study used archived hospital data to determine the correlation of the call light use rate and the average call light response time with the fall r...

Aims To develop the first psychometrically validated Diabetes Treatment Satisfaction Questionnaire for in-patients (DTSQ-IP) and examine determinants of in-patient diabetes treatment satisfaction. Methods We studied 366 in-patients with insulin-treated diabetes at a single UK centre. We developed a 19-item DTSQ-IP to assess in-patient diabetes treatment satisfaction, and collected data on in-pa...

purpose: to assess patient satisfaction with ophthalmologic services at labbafinejad medical center. method: the present study was a cross-sectional study conducted during the summer of 2008. patients with ophthalmic problems were selected by systematic random sampling according to the admission list. a trained investigator interviewed patients in the hospital or clinic. the data collection too...

Research background: The patients? confidence in physicians, as well healthcare personnel general, is an important determinant of the satisfaction and their loyalty. overall influenced by many determinants, which are a causal relation.
 Purpose article: main aim study to find out socio-demographic factors influence inpatients nurses, other medical personnel, treatment such. inpatients´ con...

The collaboration practice in health services most often hospitals is hospital team between nurses and doctors. Barriers that make not maximized due to lack of communication them. purpose this study was determine the relationship quality doctors with patient satisfaction. research method used a quantitative analytic design Cross Sectional approach. number samples 77 patients inpatient ward. sam...

OBJECTIVE The aims of this study were to identify pediatric hospitalists' perceived views of (1) barriers to delivering care to children with medical complexity (CMC) and (2) their preferred model of inpatient health care delivery for CMC. SUBJECTS American Academy of Pediatrics Section on Hospital Medicine (AAP-SOHM) Listserv subscribers. METHODS We conducted a cross-sectional survey of su...

Many acute inpatient psychiatric wards in the UK are permanently locked, although this is contrary to the current Mental Health Act Code of Practice. To conduct a literature review of empirical articles concerning locked doors in acute psychiatric inpatient wards, an extensive literature search was performed in SAGE Journals Online, EBM Reviews, British Nursing Index, CINAHL, EMBASE Psychiatry,...

CONTEXT Phlebotomy services are a common target for preanalytic improvements. Many new, quality engineering tools have recently been applied in clinical laboratories. However, data on relatively few projects have been published. This example describes a complete application of current, quality engineering tools to improve preanalytic phlebotomy services. OBJECTIVES To decrease the response ti...