In a report released today (December 16, 2014), Consumer Reports shares insights from a survey of 1,200 people who were recently hospitalized. SPM is not surprised by the findings, which include the fact that patients who said they received respectful treatment by hospital clinicians reported fewer medical errors and better experiences in their hospital stays.
This could be a landmark that helps to shift the paradigm on hospital safety and medical errors, given that Consumer Reports is read by a much more diverse audience than is JAMA or NEJM or BMJ. Getting information on how to manage a hospital stay in front of patients and families *before* they get hospital treatment – information that isn’t just a procedure brochure from their surgeon, as helpful as that can be about the reason for the hospital stay – is critical to increasing patient safety.
Read the full article here.
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