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 AND OBJECTIVES Recent publications have shown improved outcomes associated with resident-to-resident handoff processes. However, the implementation of similar handoff processes for patients moving between units and teams with expansive responsibilities presents unique challenges. We sought to determine the impact of a multidisciplinary standardized handoff process on efficiency, safe...

Abstract Introduction: One of the goals of the health system is to ensure that people are healthy. Reaching this goal is only possible through the provision of the proper services. The satisfaction of patients with the quality of health care services is used as a questionare to investigate the effectiveness of hospital services concerning consumption management and patient care quality. It ass...

as a critical aspect of nursing home care. Providers across the country made a commitment to surveying their customers in 2005, which enabled the release of the first national report on resident and family satisfaction. In 2006, My InnerView conducted satisfaction surveys with residents and families from 2,899 nursing facilities in 50 states and the District of Columbia. This represents a 30% i...

Estimates of resident satisfaction with public education have great utility in administration, especially among decision makers shrinking small communities. But such estimates are typically obtained via surveys, which costly and often unreliable at high spatial resolutions given low response rates. Our study found that schools residents communities can be reasonably estimated the community leve...

BACKGROUND The Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education work-hour limitations (WHLs) were implemented in July 2003. Effects on resident well-being, patient care, and education are not well understood. We investigated these effects of WHLs. METHODS Self-administered survey of internal medicine residents in a university-based residency program in Seattle, Wash. Part of this survey w...

BACKGROUND Recent changes in healthcare delivery have necessitated residency education reform. To adapt to these changes, graduate medical education can adopt a chief resident-led clinical curriculum. Chief residents are ideal clinical instructors, as they are recent graduates who have excelled in their residency programs. To effectively use the limited time available for education, chief resid...