http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. Research conducted by Xiao-Cheng Wu, MD, PhD, Associate Professor and Director of the Louisiana Tumor Registry at the LSU Health Sciences Center New Orleans School of Public Health, and colleagues, reports adolescents and young adults with cancer may be at higher risk for social isolation and that a substantial proportion of them have unmet social needs that could adversely affect their health. The research is published online in the Journal of Adolescent and Young Adult Oncology. More than 500 participants in the Adolescent and Young Adult Health Outcomes and http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-05-social-young-people-cancer.html Cancer Thu, 09 May 2013 16:09:57 EST news287334588 The Royal College of Anaesthetists (RCoA) and the Association of Anaesthetists of Great Britain and Ireland (AAGBI) today publish initial findings from a major study which looked at how many patients experienced accidental awareness during general anaesthesia. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-03-survey-patient-awareness-anesthesia.html Other Tue, 12 Mar 2013 05:19:15 EST news282284347 Quality is a central component of any discussion around health care and one of the key dimensions and measurements of quality care is the patient experience. However, many healthcare organizations struggle to become 'patient focused' and fail to score well on patient satisfaction surveys. New research from Brigham and Women's Hospital, published in the March edition of British Medical Journal Quality and Safety, offers a potential explanation—insufficient support from hospital management to improve the patient experience by engaging physicians and nurses in the process. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-03-patient-satisfaction-chasm.html Health Fri, 01 Mar 2013 10:30:05 EST news281356161 Researchers from Mount Sinai School of Medicine have identified reliable predictors of pain by surveying patients throughout their hospital stays about the severity of their pain and their levels of satisfaction with how their pain was managed by hospital staff. Using this data, interdisciplinary teams treating patients were able to identify patients at higher risk for pain prior to, or immediately upon, their admission to the hospital, and create and implement intervention plans resulting in patients reporting lower levels of pain and higher levels of satisfaction with their pain management. The study is published online in the American Journal of Medical Quality. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-09-predictors-inpatient-pain.html Health Fri, 21 Sep 2012 11:46:41 EST news267446793 The American Society for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy's (ASGE) Preservation and Incorporation of Valuable Endoscopic Innovations (PIVI) initiative addresses the use of endoscopy simulators for training and assessing skills in an article appearing in the September issue of GIE: Gastrointestinal Endoscopy, ASGE's monthly peer-reviewed scientific journal. This PIVI is one in a series of statements defining the diagnostic or therapeutic threshold that must be met for a technique or device to become considered appropriate for incorporation into clinical practice. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-09-asge-endoscopy-simulators-skill.html Other Wed, 19 Sep 2012 15:54:44 EST news267288877 A study suggests that safety-net hospitals (SNHs), which typically care for poor patients, performed more poorly than other hospitals on nearly every measure of patient experience and that could have financial consequences as hospital payments are connected to performance, according to a report published Online First by Archives of Internal Medicine. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-07-patient-safety-net-hospitals.html Health Mon, 16 Jul 2012 16:00:16 EST news261673073 (HealthDay) -- Adoption of strategies such as Six Sigma methodology in hospital operating rooms (ORs) leads to improvements in patient flow and employee engagement, according to a study published in the July issue of the AORN Journal. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-07-sigma-techniques-room-patient.html Surgery Sun, 01 Jul 2012 13:48:51 EST news260368993 Hospitals that adopt strategies to reduce errors and meet government requirements face an initial tradeoff between improved clinical quality and a decline in the quality of individual patients' experiences, according to new research. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-03-hospitals-tradeoff-clinical-quality-good.html Health Mon, 26 Mar 2012 11:38:23 EST news251980696 Some NHS trusts consistently outperform others on a range of measures of patient experience, finds research published online in BMJ Quality & Safety. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-03-nhs-outperform-patient.html Health Thu, 15 Mar 2012 07:01:39 EST news251013695 At NYU Langone Medical Center the focus on quality, patient safety and patient experience are not just broad stroke initiatives – but measureable, quantifiable and concrete. Patients and health care professionals can learn about this commitment to world-class care and operational transparency in the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery's recently published "2012 Quality and Outcomes Report," which is now available online as well as in hard copy at the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons (AAOS) meeting taking place this week in San Francisco. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-02-orthopaedic-surgery-transparency-patient-safety.html Surgery Fri, 10 Feb 2012 10:25:14 EST news248091907 "Real-Time Care Experience Feedback Using QR Codes," a Penn State project that allows hospital patients to inform hospital personnel of their experiences -- good or bad -- in real time, is the winner of the 2012 REACH Developer Challenge, sponsored by AcademyHealth and part of the Health 2.0 Developer Challenge. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-02-penn-state-team-qr-code.html Health Thu, 02 Feb 2012 13:26:20 EST news247411574 A new training program for emergency department staff at Rhode Island Hospital teaches communication skills by having staff take part in simulations of real patient experiences. The goal is to improve the patient experience by standardizing both team and patient communication in an emergency department (ED) setting. The program will be presented at the 12th Annual International Meeting on Simulation in Healthcare (IMSH) in San Diego, Calif. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-01-good-dont-patients.html Other Sun, 29 Jan 2012 04:08:00 EST news247032470 A study from Rhode Island Hospital examined how the perception of roles among emergency department staff can impact patient satisfaction. Through a web survey with embedded interventions, the researchers were able to determine where gaps exist in key indicators of patient satisfaction, while staff reported changing or reconsidering how these factors play into their roles. The paper was published in the European Journal of Emergency Medicine. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-11-staff-perceptions-roles-impact-patients.html Other Tue, 01 Nov 2011 11:30:57 EST news239365850 How do physicians decide which colleague to refer their patient to? It differs depending on whether you ask primary care or specialist physicians, according to research from Harvard Medical School, Brigham and Women's Hospital, and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, USA, led by Michael Barnett. Primary care physicians are more likely to cite reasons relating to patient access or physician-to-physician communication whereas medical or surgical specialists cite reasons related to patient experience with the chosen physician. Barnett and colleagues' work appears online in the Journal of General Internal Medicine. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-09-referral-decisions-differ-primary-physicians.html Health Mon, 19 Sep 2011 11:23:28 EST news235650186 Minority ethnic patients are not satisfied with NHS primary care services, despite the fact that they are using a national healthcare system that is supposed to be providing universal coverage, reveals research published online in BMJ Quality & Safety. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-09-minority-ethnic-patients-nhs-primary.html Other Thu, 08 Sep 2011 05:18:20 EST news234677879