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Continuum of Care

2016

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‘First, Do No Harm’: Shifting The Paradigm Towards A Culture Of Health, Karen Luxford Nov 2016

‘First, Do No Harm’: Shifting The Paradigm Towards A Culture Of Health, Karen Luxford

Patient Experience Journal

Over the past 17 years since the release of the Institute of Medicine report ‘To Err is Human’,1 health services and agencies around the world have increasingly focused on improving the safety and quality of health care. Historically, the commitment by health care professionals to ‘first do no harm’ has produced a focus on the absence of interventions that may cause adverse outcomes. This clinical approach links to the Hippocratic Oath which includes the promise "to abstain from doing harm". The Oath reminds clinicians to first consider the possible harm that any intervention might do. This approach to interactions …


The Experience Era Is Upon Us, Jason A. Wolf Phd Nov 2016

The Experience Era Is Upon Us, Jason A. Wolf Phd

Patient Experience Journal

In this moment in healthcare, the challenges for those in the system are dynamically shifting and the perspectives, desires and needs of the healthcare consumer are putting positive and lasting pressures on how healthcare works that will shift healthcare from where it has been to where it must go. At the heart of this transition are the ideas framing an experience era, where collaborative, consumer-focused and purposeful actions can and will lead to a healthcare system returning to its fundamental calling, that of human beings caring for human beings. In doing so we can change the nature of healthcare and …


Developing Approaches To The Collection And Use Of Evidence Of Patient Experience Below The Level Of National Surveys, Elizabeth J. Gibbons, Chris Graham, Jenny King, Kelsey Flott, Crispin Jenkinson Professor, Raymond Fitzpatrick Professor Apr 2016

Developing Approaches To The Collection And Use Of Evidence Of Patient Experience Below The Level Of National Surveys, Elizabeth J. Gibbons, Chris Graham, Jenny King, Kelsey Flott, Crispin Jenkinson Professor, Raymond Fitzpatrick Professor

Patient Experience Journal

National approaches to collecting patient feedback provide trust level information which although can provide a benchmark for trusts often doesn’t provide information about specific services or patients experiences of pathways of care. This more granular level of data could be more informative for local service development and improvement. This research explored the feasibility and usefulness of such approaches. A conceptual model and standard questionnaire of patient experience was developed that might work across a range of services and pathways of care. Seven trusts were recruited as collaborating sites in which the model and survey instrument was tested. These were from …


Does She Think She’S Supported? Maternal Perceptions Of Their Experiences In The Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, Emily A. Lilo, Richard J. Shaw, Julia Corcoran, Amy Storfer-Isser, Sarah M. Horwitz Apr 2016

Does She Think She’S Supported? Maternal Perceptions Of Their Experiences In The Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, Emily A. Lilo, Richard J. Shaw, Julia Corcoran, Amy Storfer-Isser, Sarah M. Horwitz

Patient Experience Journal

Parents’ involvement in the care of their infants in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) is critically important, leading many NICUs to implement policies and practices of family-centered care (FCC). Analyzing narrative interviews, we examined whether mothers of premature infants who participated in an intervention to help reduce anxiety, stress, and depression felt that their NICU experience reflected four key nursing behaviors previously identified as being necessary to achieving FCC. Fifty-six narratives derived from semi-structured interviews with the mothers were analyzed qualitatively and quantitatively to examine whether the women experienced emotional support, parent empowerment, welcoming environment, and parent education, as …


Patient Experience: Driving Outcomes At The Heart Of Healthcare, Jason A. Wolf Phd Apr 2016

Patient Experience: Driving Outcomes At The Heart Of Healthcare, Jason A. Wolf Phd

Patient Experience Journal

There is no longer a question that patient experience matters in healthcare today. It matters for those that are cared for and served and matters to all those working each and every day to provide the best in care at all touch points across the healthcare continuum. With this recognition, there too needs to be a change in mindset about patient experience itself. When addressing the topic of patient experience, the conversation is about something much broader than the “experience of care”, as identified in the triple aim. The idea of experience reflects our biggest opportunity in healthcare, where experience …