When patients are tasked with making difficult medical choices, a patient decision aid (PDA), used as a part of the shared decision-making process, can be an effective strategy that boosts patient...
Adult patients with public insurance coverage, like Medicare or Medicaid, and uninsured individuals are more than twice as likely to report facing implicit bias in health and otherwise unfair treatment...
The average patient appointment wait time is up 8 percent since 2017 and 24 percent since 2004, with the latest data from Merritt Hawkins showing it takes around 26 days for a new patient to get an...
A group of researchers from Johns Hopkins Medicine may have cracked the code on medication adherence, outlining two viable options involving patient education and nurse feedback to increase the number...
The American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine (AAHPM) has finalized two patient-reported outcomes measures set to improve the quality of care delivered to folks in hospice care, the...
Nursing homes are vastly underreporting patient safety events, like the occurrence of moderate pressure ulcers, to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, a practice that could impact the...
Doctor’s offices have about four chances to meet patient experience expectations before a healthcare consumer picks a new provider to visit, with around three-quarters of patients mentally...
Patients with limited English proficiency (LEP) are excluded from patient-reported outcome (PRO) measures due to language barriers. Leaving them out reduces the opportunity for better cancer treatment...
Transitioning patients from one setting to another is an especially vulnerable time that can result in adverse effects. According to new data, caregiver engagement across healthcare transitions of...
The new CMS Hospital Star Ratings methodology, introduced in 2020, is leaving smaller, rural, and critical access hospitals in a lurch, as the new methodology makes for more unpredictable star ratings,...
Adverse patient safety events went down in the decade before the COVID-19 pandemic broke out across the United States, marking a key improvement in the overall patient experience that can be replicable...
Proxy reports are a good stand-in for patient-reported outcomes when a patient can’t report their own symptoms or is otherwise incapacitated, researchers from the Regenstrief Institute wrote in...
Fewer than 2 percent of the nearly 3,600 hospitals included in this year’s Lown Institute Hospital Index for Social Responsibility ranked among the best for health equity, value, and outcomes,...
Patients are ready to start accessing medical care and preventive screenings in a post-pandemic world, but they’re going to need a strong patient engagement boost, according to new data fielded...
Between 1978 and 2018, the amount of time patients spend each year with an outpatient physician has increased by around 20 minutes, but data still reveal troubling findings of racial disparities in...
Better patient education and communication during the emergency department discharge process could be just a phone call away, according to a new study indicating telephone follow-up is a valid way to...
Nurses need more access to the time and tools needed to support patient engagement and education among an increasingly stigmatized chronic care patient population, according to surveying from Wakefield...
Two years after the medical industry joined the rest of the nation in a racial reckoning, patients are still reporting a healthcare experience characterized by racial discrimination, according to data...
The Leapfrog Group published the first part of its Outpatient Surgical Care report, finding that ambulatory service centers (ASCs) generated more favorable patient experience scores compared to...
There is a growing racial and economic divide in the receipt of patient-centered care, with minority and low-income patients having their care preferences taken into account less frequently than White...