Sitting at the Bedside: Patient and Internal Medicine Trainee Perceptions.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Sitting at the bedside may strengthen physician-patient communication and improve patient experience. Yet despite the potential benefits of sitting, hospital physicians, including resident physicians, may not regularly sit down while speaking with patients.

Objective

To examine the frequency of sitting by internal medicine residents (including first post-graduate year [PGY-1] and supervising [PGY-2/3] residents) during inpatient encounters and to assess the association between patient-reported sitting at the bedside and patients' perceptions of other physician communication behaviors. We also assessed residents' attitudes towards sitting.

Design

In-person survey of patients and email survey of internal medicine residents between August 2019 and January 2020

SUBMITTER: Golden BP 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8744572 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature