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Treating Patients As People: What Do Hospital Patients Want Clinicians to Know About Them As a Person?
| Content Provider | SAGE Publishing |
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| Author | Zimmerman, Donald L. Min, Dong-Jun Davis-Collins, Angela DeBlieux, Peter |
| Copyright Year | 2019 |
| Abstract | There is little understanding or focus on the patient’s personal communicative perspective during their experience of clinical treatment. An exploratory study and a follow-up study were conducted at a large safety net hospital to determine whether and what patients wanted clinicians to know more about them as a person.Study Design:A convenience sample of 230 patients was selected from 9 different clinical units within the hospital for exploratory interviews to determine whether patients wanted their clinical team to know about them as a person. Based on these findings, additional personal preference data of patients were collected from a census sample of 387 patients selected from 2 intensive care unit units and 2 medical–surgical units.Findings:The majority of patients in the exploratory study reported they wanted to tell their doctors/nurses some personal information about themselves, thought doctors/nurses could provide better care to them if they knew more about them as a person, and that communication between themselves and their doctors/nurses would improve if they knew more about them as a person. The follow-up study found that a majority of patients preferred that their clinicians call them by their first name and identified specific personal information they wanted to share with the clinical care team. The data also showed a meaningful number of patients who did not want to share this information with others. This split in patient preferences is an important reminder that being aware of personal preferences of patients does not necessarily mean an invitation to increase intimacy in all clinician–patient communications. |
| Related Links | https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/2374373519826244?download=true |
| Starting Page | 270 |
| Ending Page | 274 |
| Page Count | 5 |
| ISSN | 23743735 |
| Issue Number | 2 |
| Volume Number | 7 |
| Journal | Journal of Patient Experience (JPX) |
| e-ISSN | 23743743 |
| DOI | 10.1177/2374373519826244 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Sage Publications CA |
| Publisher Date | 2019-03-11 |
| Publisher Place | Los Angeles |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Rights Holder | © The Author(s) 2019 |
| Subject Keyword | patient–clinician relationship patient experience patient preferences patient communication |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
| Subject | Leadership and Management Health (social science) Health Policy |
