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Optimizing Quality Of Care By Patient Satisfaction For The Department Of Orthopaedics - A Survey Study, Milad Modarresi, Ammar Qureshi, Rodrigo Aguilar, Meghan Anderson, Felix Cheung
Optimizing Quality Of Care By Patient Satisfaction For The Department Of Orthopaedics - A Survey Study, Milad Modarresi, Ammar Qureshi, Rodrigo Aguilar, Meghan Anderson, Felix Cheung
Marshall Journal of Medicine
Introduction: Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and System (HCAHPS) has provided a standardized survey method in order to evaluate the patient’s satisfaction on the care they are provided. While overall patient satisfaction is clearly a multidimensional concept, the HCAHPS survey covers 8 domains of health care. This study tries to identify and establish the main determinants to patient’s level of satisfaction during their visit to Cabell Huntington Hospital Orthopaedics department.
Methods: Data was collected from surveys handed in 3 consecutive months; June, July and August of 2013. Sixteen questions were selected from HCAHPS that were appraised to be relevant …
Education Of Nurse Practitioners And Physician Assistants; What Role, If Any, For Physicians In Determining Their Scope Of Practice?, Joseph I. Shapiro
Education Of Nurse Practitioners And Physician Assistants; What Role, If Any, For Physicians In Determining Their Scope Of Practice?, Joseph I. Shapiro
Marshall Journal of Medicine
Recent changes in legislation allow for non-physicians to independently perform many of the duties previously restricted to physicians. There are potentially benefits to these changes, but the author is concerned that some of the attributes of physicians induced by the long and rigorous training embedded in the profession may be absent in this new, independent health-care work force.