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Hospitals, Practice Administrators and Clinicians: You Gotta Learn to Love Patient Ratings
Jessie Gruman | April 25, 2012
You are increasingly being held accountable for the outcomes of the health care you deliver. Pay for performance; shared savings in ACOs; public report cards'the list of strategies to monitor and measure the effects of your efforts is lengthening. Many of you seem dismayed by the increased weight accorded to the patient experience of care ratings embedded in most of these programs.' Here's why you should embrace them: The care you deliver cannot improve our health outcomes or even maintain passable ones without the knowledgeable, active participation of us patients and our families.
If we don't connect with at least one trusted clinician, show up when we need to, get the tests we agree on, use effectively the drugs and devices you recommend, carefully follow directions after a hospital stay and try our damndest to lose the weight and walk around the block more often, medical interventions are squandered. Our suffering continues. Time and money are wasted: yours and ours.
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 Jessie C. Gruman, PhD is president and founder of the Center for Advancing Health. Her experiences as a patient — having been diagnosed with five life threatening illnesses — informs her perspective as an author, advocate, and lead contributor to the Prepared Patient Forum blog. Her most recent book, AfterShock, helps patients navigate their way through the health care system following a serious or life-threatening diagnosis. You can follow her on Twitter @JessieGruman. | More about Jessie Gruman |
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