Patient Satisfaction

With a finding of weak to moderate correlation between patient-reported outcome measures and patient satisfaction, published results advise against overreliance of patient-reported outcome measures to assess patient outcomes after total joint arthroplasty if patient satisfaction is the desired outcome.

Factors like reduced disease severity and lower depression scores were associated with better satisfaction scores among patients with irritable bowel syndrome, according to study results.

Patients who used a mobile monitoring system with clinician access experienced significant improvement in depressive symptoms and psychological health compared with those who received usual care, according to results of a randomized clinical trial published in JAMA Network Open.

HOUSTON — Primary immune deficiencies affect approximately 500,000 people in the United States, according to the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.

Shared medical appointments for patients with vitiligo allowed improved access to dermatologic care without compromising patient satisfaction, according to a study.

CHICAGO — At long-term follow-up, patients with sesamoiditis, fracture, nonunion, osteonecrosis and arthritis who underwent isolated fibular sesamoidectomy reported long-term pain relief, according to a presenter at the American Orthopaedic Foot and Ankle Society Annual Meeting.

Outside of skin of color clinics, the satisfaction of care by black patients would improve if dermatologists underwent residency training in skin of color, cultural competency and emphatic communication skills and if there were greater dermatology workforce diversity, according to researchers in JAMA Dermatology.

Patients with cancer who attended a molecular tumor board meeting reported higher levels of satisfaction afterward, according to study results presented at this year’s ASCO Annual Meeting.

Compared with business leaders, doctors are in a difficult spot when it comes to how success is measured. In business, making the right decision at least part of the time can lead to a profitable enterprise. If you’re right more than half the time, you’re often considered a Bill Gates type of genius. But if you’re a doctor, you can lose your license by being right only half the time. Clinically and surgically speaking, that’s poor medicine. This partly explains why doctors tend to be risk-averse and conservative in decision making.

Physicians were more likely to receive a five-star satisfaction rating on a direct-to-consumer, or DTC, telemedicine platform when they prescribed antibiotics for pediatric respiratory tract infections, or RTIs. Researchers noted that pediatricians were less likely to prescribe antibiotics than other clinicians, yet had higher satisfaction ratings.