Patients' knowledge of their caregivers' names. A teaching-hospital study.
In busy hospitals--particularly teaching hospitals--ensuring that patients know the names of those attending them is a task often given low priority. Yet such knowledge is a crucial element in establishing the high-priority patient-provider relationship, and certainly one within hospitals' control. In a university teaching hospital, the authors tested patients' knowledge of names before and after the use of an information sheet listing their particular caregivers.
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University Hospital, University of Kentucky, Lexington.
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D001364:Awareness; D003625:Data Collection; D015285:Hospital-Patient Relations; D006784:Hospitals, Teaching / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D007297:Inpatients / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D007629:Kentucky; D008505:Medical Staff, Hospital / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D009275:Names; D009723:Nurse-Patient Relations; D009741:Nursing Staff, Hospital / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D017060:Patient Satisfaction / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D010817:Physician-Patient Relations