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' cont...

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Published inHospital topics Vol. 70; no. 1; pp. 25 - 28
Main Authors Brockopp, Dorothy Y., Franey, Brenda N., Sage-Smith, Diana, Romond, Edward H., Cannon, C. Caylon
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published United States Taylor & Francis Group 01.01.1992
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Awareness
Data Collection
Health administration
Hospital-Patient Relations
Hospitals, Teaching - statistics & numerical data
Inpatients - statistics & numerical data
Kentucky
Medical Staff, Hospital - statistics & numerical data
Names
Nurse-Patient Relations
Nursing Staff, Hospital - statistics & numerical data
Patient Satisfaction - statistics & numerical data
Physician-Patient Relations
Kentucky
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Summary: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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ISSN:0018-5868
1939-9278
DOI:10.1080/00185868.1992.10545237