The book explores the patient's perception of care to identify the drivers and implications of patient satisfaction. ... . The second edition offers significant new material, including : Enhanced material on staff buy-in to patient satisfaction initiatives - A new chapter that provides fifty simple and innovative improvement ideas - Additional material on staff and physician satisfaction - A new chapter on managing diverse patients and staff - New insight on compliant management and scripting. [Ed.]
Measuring and Improving Patient Satisfaction provides a detailed "how-to" approach to establishing an effective patient satisfaction measurement program. The reader learns how to measure patient satisfaction and act upon the information obtained from patient satisfaction surveys. The book is based on the author's own experience in creating and implementing a patient satisfaction measurement program for the Med-Partners Friendly Hills Health Network in Southern California.
In today's health care environment, having satisfied patients just isn't enough. You're now being judged by payers and compared to other providers and patient satisfaction is a big part of that evaluation. Improving Patient Satisfaction Now: How to Earn Patient and Payer Loyalty explains why understanding and meeting patient expectations is not only nice to know, it's necessary to know! It gives you action steps in all areas of the practice. Through anecdotes and real-life examples from practicing physicians, you'll learn how to develop higher patient satisfaction, more compliant patients, a more productive and committed staff, and practical techniques to increase patient satisfaction in this updated edition.
Ethical medical treatment is an important aspect of healthcare that is affected by multiple influencing factors in, both private and public, medical organizations. By understanding and adapting the components of the health system to these influencing factors, healthcare can have better outcomes for patients and practitioners. Healthcare Administration for Patient Safety and Engagement provides emerging research on the theoretical and practical aspects of healthcare management for optimal patient care and communication. While highlighting topics, such as clinical communication, ethical dilemmas, and preventive medicine, this book will teach readers about the tools and applications of ethical treatment and hospital behavior in both private and public medical organizations. This book is an important resource for managers and employees of health units, physicians, medical students, psychology and sociology professionals, and researchers seeking current research on healthcare organization and patient satisfaction.
Patient Satisfaction Pays shows you how to strengthen your practice in the areas by which patients measure quality service. Find a treasury of practical techniques to increase patient satisfaction in this unique handbook.
Patient-reported outcomes (PROs) are measures of how patients feel or what they are able to do in the context of their health status; PROs are reports, usually on questionnaires, about a patient's health conditions, health behaviors, or experiences with health care that individuals report directly, without modification of responses by clinicians or others; thus, they directly reflect the voice of the patient. PROs cover domains such as physical health, mental and emotional health, functioning, symptoms and symptom burden, and health behaviors. They are relevant for many activities: helping patients and their clinicians make informed decisions about health care, monitoring the progress of care, setting policies for coverage and reimbursement of health services, improving the quality of health care services, and tracking or reporting on the performance of health care delivery organizations. We address the major methodological issues related to choosing, administering, and using PROs for these purposes, particularly in clinical practice settings. We include a framework for best practices in selecting PROs, focusing on choosing appropriate methods and modes for administering PRO measures to accommodate patients with diverse linguistic, cultural, educational, and functional skills, understanding measures developed through both classic and modern test theory, and addressing complex issues relating to scoring and analyzing PRO data.
"Patient Satisfaction: Determinants, Psychological Implications and Impact on Quality of Life first provides an in-depth, evidence-based review of the patient outcomes associated with patient experience measures across a wide range of specialties and settings. The authors describe the instruments used to assess patient and family satisfaction, focusing on the presentation of various factors related to satisfaction in the field of child and adolescent psychiatry. Current literature on the factors which impact patient quality of life are explored and reviewed in the context of breast reconstruction, using assessment tools such as the BREAST-Q"--
Winner of the 2021 PROSE Award for CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY and PSYCHIATRY Against a global backdrop of problematic adherence to medical treatment, this volume addresses and provides practical solutions to the simple question: "Why don't patients take treatments that could save their lives?" The Wiley handbook of Healthcare Treatment Engagement offers a guide to the theory, research and clinical practice of promoting patient engagement in healthcare treatment at individual, organizational and systems levels. The concept of treatment engagement, as explained within the text, promotes a broader view than the related concept of treatment adherence. Treatment engagement encompasses more readily the lifestyle factors which may impact healthcare outcomes as much as medication-taking, as well as practical, economic and cultural factors which may determine access to treatment. Over a span of 32 chapters, an international panel of expert authors address this far-reaching and fascinating field, describing a broad range of evidence-based approaches which stand to improve clinical services and treatment outcomes, as well as the experience of users of healthcare service and practitioners alike. This comprehensive volume adopts an interdisciplinary approach to offer an understanding of the factors governing our healthcare systems and the motivations and behaviors of patients, clinicians and organizations. Presented in a user-friendly format for quick reference, the text first supports the reader’s understanding by exploring background topics such as the considerable impact of sub-optimal treatment adherence on healthcare outcomes, before describing practical clinical approaches to promote engagement in treatment, including chapters referring to specific patient populations. The text recognizes the support which may be required throughout the depth of each healthcare organization to promote patient engagement, and in the final section of the book, describes approaches to inform the development of healthcare services with which patients will be more likely to seek to engage. This important book: Provides a comprehensive summary of practical approaches developed across a wide range of clinical settings, integrating research findings and clinical literature from a variety of disciplines Introduces and compliments existing approaches to improve communication in healthcare settings and promote patient choice in planning treatment Presents a range of proven clinical solutions that will appeal to those seeking to improve outcomes on a budget Written for health professionals from all disciplines of clinical practice, as well as service planners and policy makers, The Wiley Handbook of Healthcare Treatment Engagement is a comprehensive guide for individual practitioners and organizations alike. 2021 PROSE Biological and Life Sciences Category for Clinical Psychology & Psychiatry
Healthcare quality (HQ) became eminent during the COVID-19 crisis. Despite the efforts made by the Ministry of Health in Oman, the country faced several challenges, such as a lack of available funds and patients perceived in a negative manner which hindered their treatment experience. The study examines factors affecting HQ using the SERVQUAL model; patient satisfaction in Omani public hospitals, including healthcare quality, resources availability (RA), and healthcare facility preparedness (HFP); and the moderation effect of the perceived risk of COVID-19 pandemic. This research uses a mixed method with a sample size of 387 patients (quantitatively) selected using probability random sampling of 8 patients (qualitatively) who visited public hospitals The findings from the quantitative analysis reveals that the tangibility and RA had insignificant effect on the HQ. The moderation effect of perceived risk of COVID-19 between HQ, RA, HFP and patient satisfaction was insignificant. The results of the qualitative analysis indicated other factors that affected patient satisfaction, including communication, helpfulness, compassion, physician professionalism, patient-doctor contact, waiting time, atmosphere, and cleanliness. The study proposed a strategy for technical categories that include professional skills, service outcomes and concrete quality aspects, and functional categories. The study has also recommended implications for further investigation.
From the worldOCOs leading authorities in nursing research, this thoroughly updated 2nd Edition of the Encyclopedia of Nursing Research presents key terms and concepts in nursing research comprehensively explained by over 200 expert contributors."
