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Relationship Between Nurse-To-Patient Ratios, Patient Satisfaction Scores, And Hospital Profitability, Patrick Ross Bumstead
Relationship Between Nurse-To-Patient Ratios, Patient Satisfaction Scores, And Hospital Profitability, Patrick Ross Bumstead
Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies
In 2019, hospital profitability margins were at their lowest levels since the great recession due to a declining volume of patients. Hospital executives who fail to improve profitability are at risk of sustainability. Grounded in the service-profit chain theory, the purpose of this quantitative correlational study was to examine whether nurse-to-patient ratios and patient satisfaction scores significantly predict hospital profitability. Data were collected from 74 hospitals in Southern California from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services government database and publicly available financial statements. Results from multiple regression analysis were not statistically significant. A key recommendation is for hospital executives …
Effect Of Clinical Trial Participation On Patient Experience And Overall Hospital Scores, Bridget Tyrka
Effect Of Clinical Trial Participation On Patient Experience And Overall Hospital Scores, Bridget Tyrka
Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies
AbstractDespite groundbreaking advances in technology and medicine in the United States and intensive examination of health services quality initiatives, issues of quality and patient-reported experience measures in the hospital sector remain unimproved. Although evidence-based medicine has improved through innovation in clinical research, healthcare systems have reportedly struggled to implement advances in medicine and lack the skill sets to become learning health systems. As clinical practice and clinical trials (CTs) have rarely intersected in the past, a significant lack of quantitative research has been dedicated to correlate improved patient outcomes with participation in CTs. The analysis sought a correlation, if any, …