Prospective cohort survey of patient satisfaction with on-treatment review by advanced practice urology radiographer

2008 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 205-212 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jo Treeby
Keyword(s):  
Patient Satisfaction ◽  
Patient Care ◽  
Advanced Practice ◽  
Site Specific ◽  
Treatment Review ◽  
Advanced Practitioner ◽  
Trained Individual ◽  
Negative Effect ◽  
Enhance Patient Care ◽  
A Site

ABSTRACTRadiographers are undertaking roles that are a development and extension of what has traditionally been seen as their remit. As with any development, it is important that such changes in practise have a positive rather than negative effect on patient care and patient experience. This article examines patient perception and level of patient satisfaction of an ‘on-treatment review’ conducted by a site-specific advanced practitioner radiographer instead of an oncology doctor. Overall, the results were positive suggesting that such reviews, when conducted by an appropriately trained individual, can enhance patient care and provide a satisfactory level of support during treatment.

Patient Satisfaction Surveys: Tools to Enhance Patient Care or Flawed Outcome Measures?

PM&R ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 5 (12) ◽  
pp. 1069-1076 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter C. Esselman ◽  
Brian F. White ◽  
Gary P. Chimes ◽  
David J. Kennedy
Keyword(s):  
Patient Satisfaction ◽  
Patient Care ◽  
Outcome Measures ◽  
Enhance Patient Care ◽  
Satisfaction Surveys

Saturday multidisciplinary hemodialysis access clinics to enhance patient care

2019 ◽  
Vol 21 (4) ◽  
pp. 456-459
Author(s):  
Lorraine T Levitsky ◽  
Jack Ruske ◽  
Dirk M Hentschel ◽  
Louis L Nguyen ◽  
C Keith Ozaki ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Patient Satisfaction ◽  
Patient Care ◽  
Patient Population ◽  
Tertiary Care ◽  
Multidisciplinary Care ◽  
Care Plan ◽  
Care Hospital ◽  
Hemodialysis Access ◽  
Practice Assistant ◽  
Enhance Patient Care

Fragmentation of outpatient care is a substantial barrier to creation and maintenance of hemodialysis access. To improve patient accessibility, satisfaction, and multidisciplinary provider communication, we created a monthly Saturday multidisciplinary vascular surgery and interventional nephrology access clinic at a tertiary care hospital in a major urban area for the complicated hemodialysis patient population. The study included patients presenting for new access creation as well as those who had previously undergone access surgery. Staffing included two to three interventional nephrologists, two to three vascular surgeons, one medical assistant, one research assistant, and one practice assistant. Patient satisfaction and perception of the clinic was measured using surveys during six of the monthly Saturday hemodialysis clinics. A total of 675 patient encounters were completed (18.2 average/clinic ±6.3 standard deviation) from August 2016 to August 2019. All patients were seen by both disciplines. The average no-show rate was 19.9% throughout the study period. Patient satisfaction in all measures was consistently high with the Saturday clinic. Providers were also assayed, and they generally valued the real-time, multidisciplinary care plan generation, and its subsequent efficient execution. Saturday multidisciplinary hemodialysis access clinics offer high provider and patient satisfaction and streamlined patient care. However, no-show rates remain relatively high for this challenging patient population.

Is there a role for an advanced practitioner in UK military prehospital care?

2021 ◽  
pp. e001781
Author(s):  
Elizabeth Paxman ◽  
D Lamb ◽  
S Findlay
Keyword(s):  
Patient Care ◽  
Clinical Experience ◽  
Emergency Care ◽  
Healthcare Professionals ◽  
Care Pathway ◽  
Prehospital Care ◽  
Advanced Practice ◽  
Advanced Practitioner ◽  
The Military

Recruitment and retention of doctors have been highlighted as some of the leading causes of the current perceived crisis within civilian emergency care. Indeed, the NHS recognises the contribution made by other healthcare professionals by supporting accreditation in advanced practice to mitigate the risks associated with these capability gaps. Consequently, roles such as the advanced clinical practitioner are now well established. Previous research and clinical experience in the civilian sector suggest that the advanced practitioner (AP) role could be used within Defence. Operationally, the role could be advantageous for the Defence Medical Services in the delivery of deployed healthcare. However, there is no available research that defines the role of UK military APs and, more specifically, their potential to support deployed prehospital care. Further work is required to determine how an AP might be effectively used within the military prehospital patient care pathway.

Teletinnitus Program at the VA Gulf Coast Veterans Health Care System

2014 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 23-29
Author(s):  
Constance Hilory Tomberlin
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Patient Satisfaction ◽  
Patient Care ◽  
Health Care System ◽  
Gulf Coast ◽  
New Technology ◽  
Cost Effective ◽  
Veterans Health ◽  
Potential Benefits ◽  
Care System

There are a multitude of reasons that a teletinnitus program can be beneficial, not only to the patients, but also within the hospital and audiology department. The ability to use technology for the purpose of tinnitus management allows for improved appointment access for all patients, especially those who live at a distance, has been shown to be more cost effective when the patients travel is otherwise monetarily compensated, and allows for multiple patient's to be seen in the same time slots, allowing for greater access to the clinic for the patients wishing to be seen in-house. There is also the patient's excitement in being part of a new technology-based program. The Gulf Coast Veterans Health Care System (GCVHCS) saw the potential benefits of incorporating a teletinnitus program and began implementation in 2013. There were a few hurdles to work through during the beginning organizational process and the initial execution of the program. Since the establishment of the Teletinnitus program, the GCVHCS has seen an enhancement in patient care, reduction in travel compensation, improvement in clinic utilization, clinic availability, the genuine excitement of the use of a new healthcare media amongst staff and patients, and overall patient satisfaction.

scholarly journals Functional expression of a yeast mitochondrial intron-encoded protein requires RNA processing at a conserved dodecamer sequence at the 3' end of the gene.

1989 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 1507-1512 ◽  
Author(s):  
H Zhu ◽  
H Conrad-Webb ◽  
X S Liao ◽  
P S Perlman ◽  
R A Butow
Keyword(s):  
Genetic Analysis ◽  
Rna Processing ◽  
Fold Increase ◽  
Functional Expression ◽  
Rrna Gene ◽  
Yeast Mitochondria ◽  
Wild Type ◽  
Site Specific ◽  
Var1 Gene ◽  
A Site

All mRNAs of yeast mitochondria are processed at their 3' ends within a conserved dodecamer sequence, 5'-AAUAAUAUUCUU-3'. A dominant nuclear suppressor, SUV3-I, was previously isolated because it suppresses a dodecamer deletion at the 3' end of the var1 gene. We have tested the effects of SUV3-1 on a mutant containing two adjacent transversions within a dodecamer at the 3' end of fit1, a gene located within the 1,143-base-pair intron of the 21S rRNA gene, whose product is a site-specific endonuclease required in crosses for the quantitative transmission of that intron to 21S alleles that lack it. The fit1 dodecamer mutations blocked both intron transmission and dodecamer cleavage, neither of which was suppressed by SUV3-1 when present in heterozygous or homozygous configurations. Unexpectedly, we found that SUV3-1 completely blocked cleavage of the wild-type fit1 dodecamer and, in SUV3-1 homozygous crosses, intron conversion. In addition, SUV3-1 resulted in at least a 40-fold increase in the amount of excised intron accumulated. Genetic analysis showed that these phenotypes resulted from the same mutation. We conclude that cleavage of a wild-type dodecamer sequence at the 3' end of the fit1 gene is essential for fit1 expression.

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