Treating Patients As People: What Do Hospital Patients Want Clinicians to Know About Them As a Person?

ABSTRACT:

Background

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 major

SUBMITTER: Zimmerman DL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7427369 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature