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Incorporating Home Visits In A Primary Care Residency Clinic: The Patient And Physician Experience, Mary Caitlin St. Clair, Jessica J. F. Kram, Glenda Sundberg Oct 2019

Incorporating Home Visits In A Primary Care Residency Clinic: The Patient And Physician Experience, Mary Caitlin St. Clair, Jessica J. F. Kram, Glenda Sundberg

Aurora Family Medicine Residents

Purpose: Home visits, once a popular but now uncommon form of health care delivery, are on the rise. Few studies have focused on the value the experience brings to resident physicians and their patients.

Methods: A 6-month pilot was conducted with 11 residents who participated in 32 home visits with 11 patients. Patient and resident experiences were captured through a survey following the home visits.

Results: In all, 100% of patients and a majority of residents were very interested in being a part of and incorporating future home visits, respectively. Every patient in the survey said that the visits resulted …


Incorporating Home Visits In A Primary Care Residency Clinic: The Patient And Physician Experience, Mary Caitlin St. Clair, Jessica J. F. Kram, Glenda Sundberg Aug 2019

Incorporating Home Visits In A Primary Care Residency Clinic: The Patient And Physician Experience, Mary Caitlin St. Clair, Jessica J. F. Kram, Glenda Sundberg

Glenda Sundberg, FNP-CS, APNP

Purpose: Home visits, once a popular but now uncommon form of health care delivery, are on the rise. Few studies have focused on the value the experience brings to resident physicians and their patients.

Methods: A 6-month pilot was conducted with 11 residents who participated in 32 home visits with 11 patients. Patient and resident experiences were captured through a survey following the home visits.

Results: In all, 100% of patients and a majority of residents were very interested in being a part of and incorporating future home visits, respectively. Every patient in the survey said that the visits resulted …


Incorporating Home Visits In A Primary Care Residency Clinic: The Patient And Physician Experience, Mary Caitlin St. Clair, Jessica J. F. Kram, Glenda Sundberg Aug 2019

Incorporating Home Visits In A Primary Care Residency Clinic: The Patient And Physician Experience, Mary Caitlin St. Clair, Jessica J. F. Kram, Glenda Sundberg

Jessica Kram, MPH

Purpose: Home visits, once a popular but now uncommon form of health care delivery, are on the rise. Few studies have focused on the value the experience brings to resident physicians and their patients.

Methods: A 6-month pilot was conducted with 11 residents who participated in 32 home visits with 11 patients. Patient and resident experiences were captured through a survey following the home visits.

Results: In all, 100% of patients and a majority of residents were very interested in being a part of and incorporating future home visits, respectively. Every patient in the survey said that the visits resulted …


Improving Patient Wait Times, Patient Satisfaction, Staff Satisfaction And Patient Reported Review Of Systems Completeness Through Increased Use Of Eclinicalworks Kiosk Technology In Pediatric Primary Care, Jessica Gatto Apr 2018

Improving Patient Wait Times, Patient Satisfaction, Staff Satisfaction And Patient Reported Review Of Systems Completeness Through Increased Use Of Eclinicalworks Kiosk Technology In Pediatric Primary Care, Jessica Gatto

Jessica Gatto

Background: Timeliness of care is considered one of the core aspects to quality health care. Patient wait times that exceed 20 minutes may decrease the quality of care by decreasing patient satisfaction. Generally, previous quality improvement studies have been successful in reducing patient wait times and increasing patient satisfaction using a check-in kiosk.  

Local Problem: Patient wait times in a pediatric primary care setting were found to exceed 20 minutes. Additionally, an existing check-in kiosk was not being utilized 100% of the time during the patient check-in process, potentially leading to longer total patient wait times and corresponding decreased …


Office Nurse Educators: Improving Diabetes Self-Management For The Latino Population In The Clinic Setting, Dawn Weiler, Laura Tirrell Apr 2010

Office Nurse Educators: Improving Diabetes Self-Management For The Latino Population In The Clinic Setting, Dawn Weiler, Laura Tirrell

Dawn Weiler

Diabetes patients who understand their disease and how to manage it can achieve a lower complication rate. The American Diabetes Association recommends that patients receive self-management education and that patients' skills and knowledge be reassessed annually. The Healthy People 2010 objectives include a goal of at least 60% of diabetes patients receiving diabetes education. However, to date overall, far fewer (20%–50%) obtain comprehensive diabetes education and skills development to effectively implement self-management techniques. Low-income Latino patients generally fare even worse. This article describes a successful method to address this problem: the development and evaluation of an in-house diabetes education program, …