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Feasibility Of Using Emergency Department Patient Experience Surveys As A Proxy For Equity Of Care, Helen Chiu, Nadia Batara, Robert Stenstrom, Lianne Carley, Catherine Jones, Lena Cuthbertson, Eric Grafstein
Feasibility Of Using Emergency Department Patient Experience Surveys As A Proxy For Equity Of Care, Helen Chiu, Nadia Batara, Robert Stenstrom, Lianne Carley, Catherine Jones, Lena Cuthbertson, Eric Grafstein
Patient Experience Journal
Collecting and examining equity data can help inform quality improvement initiatives but is a relatively new practice in health care. The overall goal of this study was to assess different methods of administering patient experience surveys as a feasible starting point in measuring equity in an urban Emergency Department (ED) that serves a diverse patient population. Socio-demographic characteristics of patients visiting an ED were compared with those of patients who responded to provincial patient experience surveys routinely administered by mail. Patient experience survey data were collected over an 11-week period in an urban ED using different survey administration methods (face-to-face …
Improving The Patient Experience Through Nurse Leader Rounds, Judy C. Morton, Jodi Brekhus, Megan Reynolds, Anna Kay Dykes
Improving The Patient Experience Through Nurse Leader Rounds, Judy C. Morton, Jodi Brekhus, Megan Reynolds, Anna Kay Dykes
Patient Experience Journal
While providing exceptional care experiences to patients is a priority for many organizations, creating and sustaining measureable success in this area remains a challenge for many. This article examines the impact of implementing nurse leader rounds on patient perception of care in the hospitals and emergency departments of a large healthcare system. Nurse leader rounds were implemented as a system-wide improvement practice at Providence Health & Services in 2012. Analysis of Press Ganey and Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (HCAHPS) survey results indicates that implementation of nurse leader rounds is associated with statistically significant improvement in patient …