Richter, J. P., & Muhlestein, D. B. (in press). Patient experience and hospital profitability: Is there a link? Health Care Management Review. To assess whether, independent of a direct financial impact, a more positive patient experience is associated with increased profitability.  A positive patient experience is associated with increased profitability, and a negative patient experience is e...

status of blood­collecting organi­ zations — policies that the WHO endorses and that were stressed again in a 2011 World Health As­ sembly resolution. These principles can also be established within a country through legislation or policy and can be achieved with­ in a biologics manufacturing en­ vironment. Additional concerns are that treating blood as a medication might increase costs and int...

BACKGROUND Excellent communication is a necessary component of high-quality health care. We aimed to determine whether a training module could improve patients' perceptions of physician communication behaviors, as measured by change over time in domains of patient experience scores related to physician communication. STUDY DESIGN We designed a comprehensive physician-training module focused o...

objectives this study aimed to understand the patients’ experience of tuberculosis treatment according to dots in iran. patients and methods this study is a qualitative study, using content analysis to examine patients’ experience of tb treatment and to understand their compliance during dots. in this study, a semi-structured interview with open questions was answered by 40 patients, who had a ...

Pulmonary coccidioidomycosis is an infection in the lungs caused by the fungus Coccidioides. The disease is very rare in India and only a few cases have been reported so far. The diagnosis of pulmonary coccidioidomycosis is very challenging because it mimics other lower respiratory tract infections. Both clinical suspicion and laboratory confirmation plays a very important role in the diagnosis...

introduction: patient education is influenced by cultural factors. this study aims to find out the role of culture in patient education. methods: a qualitative study was conducted on 23 iranian nurses. inclusion criteria were minimum 5 years of working experience in clinical nursing. semistructured face to face interviews were used to collect the data. interviews were taped, transcribed and ana...