OBJECTIVE Medical specialty boards have a Maintenance of Certification (MOC) paradigm whose intention is to ensure high-quality patient care. How the patient experience is affected by physician MOC enrollment/participation is unknown. Our goal was to determine if patient experience is associated with physician board certification and MOC status. METHODS We analyzed physician experience and MO...

Abstract Date Presented 04/22/2023 Patient experience is increasingly being acknowledged as an important quality indicator in health care. Nevertheless, there a lack of understanding this construct. This qualitative study sought to understand the lived experiences patients inpatient rehabilitation and factors that are most influential experience. Research findings increase patient perceived fac...

Many primary care practices have created a team structure in which a clinician and medical assistant "teamlet" form the core of a larger team. The larger team comprises a few teamlets supported by other clinical personnel. Patients are empaneled to a particular teamlet. The teamlet structure, which turns large practices into small units, is attractive to patients, most of whom prefer small rath...

OBJECTIVE To explore patient experience of computerised cognitive behaviour therapy (cCBT) for depression in a pragmatic randomised controlled trial (Randomised Evaluation of the Effectiveness and Acceptability of Computerised Therapy, REEACT). DESIGN Qualitative semistructured interviews with 36 participants. PARTICIPANTS Depressed patients with a Patient Health Questionnaire 9 of 10 or ab...

Patient- and family-centered care is a model of providing care in which the patient and family are partners with the provider and care team. A resurgence of interest in patient- and family-centered care is due, in part, to increasing consumerism in health care and the linking of reimbursement to the patient experience. Individual radiologists, practices, enterprises, and radiology professional ...