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ArticleCureus2021

The Impact of a New Internal Medicine Residency Program on Patient Satisfaction Scores for Teaching Hospitalist Faculty Compared to Non-teaching Hospitalist.

Janeane Walker, John E Delzell

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Article in Cureus, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Janeane WalkerGraduate Medical Education, Northeast Georgia Medical Center, Gainesville, USA.
John E DelzellGraduate Medical Education, Northeast Georgia Medical Center, Gainesville, USA.
Northeast Georgia Medical Center · US

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

introductionThe Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (HCAHPS) is a national survey sent to patients to measure their inpatient experience. Graduate medical education programs may affect a sponsoring institution in various ways, but there has been little research into the effect of teaching hospitalist faculty on HCAHPS scores in a community-based hospital. The aim of the current study is to evaluate if the introduction of internal medicine resident physicians would affect the HCAHPS scores of patients admitted by hospitalist faculty physicians.

methodsThis was a retrospective analysis of anonymous patient satisfaction survey data for internal medicine hospitalist teams from January 2019 to December 2019. Data were retrieved from the Press Ganey database. We compared two groups: teaching hospitalists (N = 12) and non-teaching hospitalists (N = 34). Data were divided into two time periods: January to June (pre-residents) and July to December (post-residents).

resultsFrom January to June (pre-residents), 646 HCAHPS surveys were returned. For the post-resident cohort (July to December), a total of 487 surveys were returned. The "Recommend" domain, showed a significant improvement in the mean pre-resident to post-resident (57% to 69%; p = 0.0351).

conclusionThere was a significant increase in the mean rating of the "Recommend" hospital domain for the teaching hospitalists when compared to the non-teaching after the addition of a new internal medicine residency program.

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hospital consumer assessmenthospitalist medicinepatient experiencepatient satisfactionprovider-patient communicationresident-patient communication

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PMID35111475
PMCPMC8794443
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