Content tagged with 'Health Care Quality'
My Weekend as an Emergency Patient and What I Learned
PREPARED PATIENT BLOG | May 13, 2013 | Anne Polta
If you want to see what health care is really like, there’s no better way than by becoming a patient yourself. To paraphrase the wisdom of Dr. Seuss, “Oh, the things you’ll learn!”
The Truth about Those High Patient Satisfaction Scores for Doctor-Patient Communication
PREPARED PATIENT BLOG | April 11, 2013 | Stephen Wilkins
The problem with satisfaction data related to doctor-patient communication is that, at face value, it simply doesn’t correlate with other published data on the subject. There is a disconnect between what patients say in satisfaction surveys and what happens in actual practice. Here’s what I mean…
Is Health Insurance Sticker Shock for Real?
PREPARED PATIENT BLOG | April 9, 2013 | Trudy Lieberman
Wherever you turn, there are complaints about health insurance rates. A Pennsylvania woman tells me her monthly premium will soon be $100 more than it used to be. A New Yorker finds the premium for retiree coverage rising 24 percent...
A Year of Living Sickishly: A Patient Reflects
PREPARED PATIENT BLOG | September 13, 2012 | Jessie Gruman
The essays collected here reflect on what it felt like as a patient with a serious illness, to cobble together a plan with my clinicians that works and to slog through the treatments in the hope that my cancer will be contained or cured and that I will be able to resume the interesting life I love.
Are Patient Ratings a Good Guide to a Good Hospital?
PREPARED PATIENT BLOG | September 11, 2012 | Trudy Lieberman
After writing about trying to choose the best hospital for my upcoming cataract surgery, I wondered if a few quality measures might offer a clue or two about how to better honcho some of my care, like the one that asks hospital patients if a nurse explained medications given to them. Since many ratings schemes rely on patient satisfaction data collected by the government, I decided to explore further.
My Doctor Gets 3 Stars? 2 Thumbs Up? B+?
PREPARED PATIENT BLOG | July 27, 2012 | Conversation Continues
Hospital and physician ratings and patient satisfaction scores are all inter-related. Do they provide useful, meaningful information-and will we use them?
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