A Missed Opportunity to Improve Patient Satisfaction? Patient Perceptions of Inpatient Communication With Their Primary Care Physician.

Improving patient satisfaction is a major focus of hospitals. Patient satisfaction could be driven by patient perception of hospital team communication with their primary care physician (PCP). A retrospective mixed methods approach was used to characterize the relationship between patient satisfaction and patient perception of hospital team-PCP communication.

The effects of written emotional disclosure and coping skills training in rheumatoid arthritis: a randomized clinical trial.

Objective: Two psychological interventions for rheumatoid arthritis (RA) are cognitive-behavioral coping skills training (CST) and written emotional disclosure (WED). These approaches have developed independently, and their combination may be more effective than either one alone. Furthermore, most studies of each intervention have methodological limitations, and each needs further testing.

No time for teaching? Inpatient attending physicians' workload and teaching before and after the implementation of the 2003 duty hours regulations.

Purpose: Understanding the association between attending physicians' workload and teaching is critical to preserving residents' learning experience. The authors tested the association between attending physicians' self-reported workload and perceptions of time for teaching before and after the 2003 resident duty hours regulations.

Method: From 2001 to 2008, the authors surveyed all inpatient general medicine attending physicians at a teaching hospital.