Patient experience reflects quality of care from the patients' perspective; therefore, patients' experiences are important data in the evaluation of the quality of health services. The development of an abbreviated, reliable and valid instrument for measuring inpatients' experience would reflect the key aspect of inpatient care from patients' perspective as well as facilitate quality improvemen...

IMPORTANCE The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services include patient experience as a core component of its Value-Based Purchasing program, which ties financial incentives to hospital performance on a range of quality measures. However, it remains unclear whether patient satisfaction is an accurate marker of high-quality surgical care. OBJECTIVE To determine whether hospital performance o...

BACKGROUND Surveys of patient satisfaction and their willingness to return can be used for the optimization of processes, improving their quality, and increasing the satisfaction and loyalty in customers. This study looked at the factors significantly associated with patient satisfaction after primary total hip replacement (THR), and which affect the patients' willingness to return to the same ...

Background, Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic is critical challenges with quality of nursing care and patient satisfaction, the study aim: was to relation between nurses caring behaviors Satisfaction patients COVID-19. Design sample: A descriptive, Correlational design used. A consecutive sample 80 were recruited. Setting: inpatient unit in Abo Khalifa Isolation Hospital. Tools da...

Purpose: The study purpose was to examine the relationships among: (1) EHR adoption stage, (2) missed nursing care and (3) nursing practice environment, on hospitalized patient adverse outcomes and satisfaction. Scope: The analytic sample consisted of data on 854,258 adult patients discharged from 70 New Jersey hospitals in 2006 and 7,679 nurses working in those same hospitals. Methods: This se...

BACKGROUND Family-centered rounds (FCR) are becoming the status quo for inpatient pediatric medical care; however, barriers still exist. The use of facilitators in FCR is gaining popularity. Although facilitators can increase comfort with FCR, the choice of preferred facilitator has not been studied by using rigorous methodology. In this study, we performed a randomized trial of facilitated FCR...

BACKGROUND Nurse caring has been linked to many clinical outcomes, including patient satisfaction, well-being, and healing. In addition, it is valued by nursing staff and viewed as being essential to clinical practice. OBJECTIVES The purpose of this program evaluation study was to determine the difference in patient satisfaction with overall nursing care and perceived nurse caring when a nurs...

Patient satisfaction is valid indicator for measurement of service quality. Patient’s opinions are important because dissatisfaction suggests opportunities for improvement of health services in the hospital. The objective of this study was to assess the patient satisfaction with hospital services. Descriptive survey study design was adopted for this study .The population of the study was the cl...

BACKGROUND Care for elderly persons with disabilities is usually characterized by fragmentation, often leading to more intrusive and expensive forms of care such as hospitalization and institutionalization. There has been increasing interest in the ability of integrated models to improve health, satisfaction, and service utilization outcomes. METHODS A program of integrated care for vulnerabl...