A trial of a real-time alert for clinical deterioration in patients hospitalized on general medical wards.

Background: With limited numbers of intensive care unit (ICU) beds available, increasing patient acuity is expected to contribute to episodes of inpatient deterioration on general wards.

Objective: To prospectively validate a predictive algorithm for clinical deterioration in general-medical ward patients, and to conduct a trial of real-time alerts based on this algorithm.

Design: Randomized, controlled crossover study.

How patient reactions to hospital care attributes affect the evaluation of overall quality of care, willingness to recommend, and willingness to return.

Patient satisfaction is a critical part of the quality outcomes of healthcare. Every industry is interested in customer satisfaction because satisfied customers are loyal customers. Healthcare is no exception.

Patient satisfaction: focusing on "excellent".

In an emerging competitive market such as healthcare, managers should focus on achieving excellent ratings to distinguish their organization from others. When it comes to customer loyalty, "excellent" has a different meaning. Customers who are merely satisfied often do not come back.

Production and identification repetition priming in amnestic mild cognitive impairment.

The experiment reported here examined implicit memory function, as measured through repetition priming, in amnestic mild cognitive impairment (MCI) to examine whether impairments exist in this aspect of memory function. Young adults, healthy older controls, Alzheimer's disease patients, and MCI participants were asked to perform two types of implicit memory tests (word stem completion and threshold identification repetition priming tasks), as well as a recognition test for studied items. As expected, young adults performed better than the other participants on the recognition test and the word stem completion task; there was equivalent priming across groups on the word identification task.