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International Journal of Environmental... Sep 2019Patient satisfaction is a measure of the extent to which a patient is content with the health care they received from their health care provider. Patient satisfaction is...
Patient satisfaction is a measure of the extent to which a patient is content with the health care they received from their health care provider. Patient satisfaction is one of the most important factors to determine the success of a health care facility. The purpose of this study was to determine patient satisfaction with healthcare services and encompass the physician's behavior as moderation between patient satisfaction and healthcare services. The study seeks to measure the health care services, like a laboratory and diagnostic care, preventive healthcare and prenatal care, to patient satisfaction in the public health sectors of Pakistan. A descriptive survey research design was used for this study. The target population was patients from the out-patient department (OPD) of three public hospitals from Pakistan. By using the convenient sampling technique, 290 sample participants were selected from the target population. The reliability scales were tallied by using Cronbach's Alpha. The findings of the study are gleaned by using regression to explore patient satisfaction with the health care services, and whether or not the physician's behavior moderates the link of patient satisfaction and healthcare services. SPSS Hayes process was used for the moderation effect of the physician's behavior. The main results of the regression analysis validate that health care services, such as laboratory and diagnostic care, preventive healthcare, and prenatal care, have a significant and positive effect on patient satisfaction. Specifically, the study suggests that the physician's behavior significantly moderates the effect of health care services on the satisfaction of patients. The overall opinions about the satisfaction level of patients for the availability of health services in the hospitals were good. The degree of satisfaction was satisfactory with respect to laboratory and diagnostic care, preventive healthcare, and prenatal care services. Based on the outcomes, the study confirms that the proposed hypotheses are statistically significant. Furthermore, the directions for future research of the study are offered.
Topics: Adult; Aged; Aged, 80 and over; Female; Health Services; Hospitals, Public; Humans; Male; Middle Aged; Outpatients; Pakistan; Patient Satisfaction; Physicians; Young Adult
PubMed: 31505840
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Mayo Clinic Proceedings May 2024This is the first article of a 3-part series about physician health. In this installment, we outline the unique characteristics of physicians as patients, challenges and... (Review)
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This is the first article of a 3-part series about physician health. In this installment, we outline the unique characteristics of physicians as patients, challenges and opportunities presented by physician-patients, and recommendations for treating physicians. Future articles will delve into role clarity, occupational considerations, mental health, and interactions with third parties such as the physician's employer or licensing board. Ultimately, this series will help treating clinicians provide the best care to their physician-patients and successfully navigate the unique challenges that may arise, especially when the diagnosis may have an impact on their ability to practice medicine.
Topics: Humans; Physician-Patient Relations; Physicians; Physician's Role; Mental Health
PubMed: 38702130
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Harefuah Dec 2008Physicians are the backbone of every medical system. Physician function and behavior have a major impact on the function and outcomes of medical systems. Physician... (Review)
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Physicians are the backbone of every medical system. Physician function and behavior have a major impact on the function and outcomes of medical systems. Physician behavior is influenced by sets of incentives that are an inherent part of the medical system. Incentives may be divided into three groups: 1) moral incentives, i.e. professionalism, empathy, sense of mission; 2) social incentives, i.e. reputation, laws, administrative restrictions and work environment; 3) financial incentives, i.e. payments, salaries and bonuses. Physician behavior is influenced by a combination of all three types of incentives and not by a single incentive. The material incentive has more influence on recruitment while the social incentive has a stronger influence on retainment and attrition reduction. This article discusses the modern physician's environment in view of incentive sets and its impact on the medical system.
Topics: Economics, Medical; Humans; Morals; Motivation; Physicians; Social Behavior
PubMed: 19260600
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Deutsche Medizinische Wochenschrift... Mar 2000
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Topics: Autopsy; Germany; Humans; Medical Errors; Physicians
PubMed: 10767874
DOI: 10.1055/s-2007-1024181 -
HEC Forum : An Interdisciplinary... Sep 2021This article attempts to motivate a reorientation of ethical analysis of conscientious objection (CO) by physicians. First, it presents an illustrative case from a...
This article attempts to motivate a reorientation of ethical analysis of conscientious objection (CO) by physicians. First, it presents an illustrative case from a hospital emergency department for context. Then, it criticizes the standard pro- and anti-CO arguments. It proposes that the fault in standard approaches is to focus on the ethics of the physician's behavior, and a better way forward on this issue is to ask how the party against whom the physician exercises the CO ought to respond. It connects this question with recent trends in physician employment models, which suggest that CO may become a potential source of conflict in the future. The article then develops a relational account of CO that extends James Childress' insights about the nature of CO in "Appeals to Conscience" (1979). This relational account characterizes CO as a two-place relation between conscientious objector and expectant party, in which the conscientious objector makes a request of the expectant party, which has implications that will be welcome and unwelcome for both the pro- and anti-CO camps. Finally, the paper applies this relational account of CO to the case when the physician is an employee. This application demonstrates that it is highly context dependent whether or not an employer should accede to the CO requests of physician-employees.
Topics: Conscience; Dissent and Disputes; Employment; Humans; Physicians
PubMed: 31745749
DOI: 10.1007/s10730-019-09390-8 -
Canadian Family Physician Medecin de... Apr 2019
Topics: Female; Humans; Internship and Residency; Male; Physician's Role; Physicians, Family
PubMed: 30979746
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Annals of Family Medicine May 2020Firearm-related deaths are on the rise in the United States, especially among our youth. Tragically, proper firearm storage and safety could have prevented a great...
Firearm-related deaths are on the rise in the United States, especially among our youth. Tragically, proper firearm storage and safety could have prevented a great number of these deaths. Professional and public health organizations have thus encouraged physicians to provide direct patient counseling on firearm safety. Yet, even with these recommendations, the majority of physicians are still not talking to their patients about this issue. There may be many reasons for this, including concerns about liability, feeling unprepared, patient discomfort, and lack of time during office visits. Despite these concerns, we argue that physicians have an ethical obligation to discuss firearm safety with their patients. Making these discussions a part of routine clinical care would go a long way in the bipartisan effort to protect public safety and improve public health.
Topics: Counseling; Firearms; Gun Violence; Humans; Patient Safety; Physician's Role; Physicians; United States
PubMed: 32393563
DOI: 10.1370/afm.2516 -
The New England Journal of Medicine May 2019
Topics: Capital Punishment; Humans; Physician's Role; Physicians; Supreme Court Decisions; United States
PubMed: 31067367
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMp1814786 -
Journal of General Internal Medicine Jan 2016
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Topics: Clinical Competence; Humans; Interpersonal Relations; Physician-Patient Relations; Physicians
PubMed: 26525383
DOI: 10.1007/s11606-015-3531-z -
Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation... Aug 2019Any physician who has authored an Independent Medical Evaluation or medical record review can and should anticipate being called as an expert witness (EW). Litigants...
Any physician who has authored an Independent Medical Evaluation or medical record review can and should anticipate being called as an expert witness (EW). Litigants rely on EW testimony in most civil cases. The most common areas in which EWs participate and provide opinions and testimony are workers' compensation, personal injury, and medical malpractice. This report will become part of the discovery process, the process by which a party to a lawsuit can obtain information from another party or other entities involved in the lawsuit.
Topics: Conflict of Interest; Expert Testimony; Humans; Physician's Role; Physicians; Professionalism
PubMed: 31227139
DOI: 10.1016/j.pmr.2019.03.011