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Enhancing representativeness of patient-reported outcomes in routine radiation oncology care: a quality improvement protocol to address non-response

BMJ Open
Introduction Non-response significantly undermines the representativeness of patient-reported outcome (PRO) data, thereby compromising its utility for facilitating high-value, equitable, patient-centred care in cancer clinics. Quality improvement studies
Andrea L Pusic, Jason B Liu, Chengbo Zeng, Neil E Martin, Maria O Edelen   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Identifying Similar Patients Using Self-Organising Maps: A Case Study on Type-1 Diabetes Self-care Survey Responses [PDF]

arXiv, 2015
Diabetes is considered a lifestyle disease and a well managed self-care plays an important role in the treatment. Clinicians often conduct surveys to understand the self-care behaviors in their patients. In this context, we propose to use Self-Organising Maps (SOM) to explore the survey data for assessing the self-care behaviors in Type-1 diabetic ...
arxiv  

The state of patient experience

Patient Experience Journal, 2015
As the patient experience movement continues to flourish, there is greater alignment that experience encompasses all we do in healthcare – not simply a customer encounter, but how we engage people in mind, body and spirit, how we integrate the critical aspects of care from quality to safety to service and how we link the very complexities of our ...
Wolf, Jason A
openaire   +3 more sources

MET and NF2 alterations confer primary and early resistance to first‐line alectinib treatment in ALK‐positive non‐small‐cell lung cancer

Molecular Oncology, EarlyView.
Alectinib resistance in ALK+ NSCLC depends on treatment sequence and EML4‐ALK variants. Variant 1 exhibited off‐target resistance after first‐line treatment, while variant 3 and later lines favored on‐target mutations. Early resistance involved off‐target alterations, like MET and NF2, while on‐target mutations emerged with prolonged therapy.
Jie Hu, Ning Ding, Xiaobo Xu, Yedan Chen, Yong Zhang, Jingwen Liu, Jiebai Zhou, Hairong Bao, Donghui Zhang, Yijun Song, Yang Shao, Yuanlin Song   +11 more
wiley   +1 more source

Investigating patient engagement associations between a postdischarge texting programme and patient experience, readmission and revisit rates outcomes

BMJ Open
Objectives This study aimed (1) to examine the association between patient engagement with a bidirectional, semiautomated postdischarge texting programme and Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (HCAHPS) survey outcomes ...
Farzan Sasangohar, Claudia García, Roberta L Schwartz, Courtenay Bruce, Theresa Pinn-Kirkland, Adam Meyers, Emmanuel Javaluyas, John Osborn, Sayali Kelkar, Lindsey Bruchhaus, Kristen McLaury, Katherine Sauceda, Karen Carr, Lee Ann Arabie, Terrell Williams, Gail Vozzella, Tariq Nisar   +16 more
doaj   +1 more source

Nurses’ and patients’ experiences of teleconsultations

International Journal of Integrated Care, 2015
Currently telemedicine is introduced with the expectation that it can solve basicchallenges faced by the health system regarding an increasing number of patients with chronic service needs (1). The effects of teleconsultations, however, on the embodied, experiential and perceptual dimension of the relationship between nurses and patients are little ...
Sorknæs, Anne Dichmann, Hounsgaard, Lise, Olesen, Finn, Jest, Peder, Bech, Mickael, Østergaard , Birte   +5 more
openaire   +8 more sources

Patient-Experience Data and Bias - What Ratings Don't Tell Us.

New England Journal of Medicine, 2019
Patient-Experience Data and Bias Although patient-experience data are important to U.S. health care organizations, the best way to interpret them remains elusive, in part because such variables as ...
K. Poole
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Nurturing a Caring Connection in an Opioid Epidemic

Journal of Patient Experience, 2019
The current national opioid crisis poses challenges to the physician–patient relationship. This vignette describes a patient scenario which served as a personal reminder of how the physicians caring role must remain the highest priority while trying to ...
Jeffrey H Millstein MD
doaj   +1 more source

Listening to Patients: A Framework of Detecting and Mitigating Patient Misreport for Medical Dialogue Generation [PDF]

arXiv
Medical Dialogue Systems aim to provide automated healthcare support through patient-agent conversations. Previous efforts typically regard patients as ideal users -- one who accurately and consistently reports their health conditions. However, in reality, patients often misreport their symptoms, leading to discrepancies between their reports and ...
arxiv  

The patient experience of ambulatory cancer treatment: a descriptive study.

Current Oncology, 2019
Background Patient experience is often measured quantitatively, but that approach has limitations for understanding the entire experience. Qualitative methods can help to understand more complex issues most important to patients and their families.
Erica Bridge, L. G. Conn, Suman Dhanju, Simron Singh, Lesley Moody   +4 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source