Automated Electronic Health Record to Electronic Data Capture Transfer in Clinical Studies in the German Health Care System: Feasibility Study and Gap Analysis.

Background: Data transfer between electronic health records (EHRs) at the point of care and electronic data capture (EDC) systems for clinical research is still mainly carried out manually, which is error-prone as well as cost- and time-intensive. Automated digital transfer from EHRs to EDC systems (EHR2EDC) would enable more accurate and efficient data capture but has so far encountered technological barriers primarily related to data format and the technological environment: in Germany, health care data are collected at the point of care in a variety of often individualized practice management systems (PMSs), most of them not interoperable. Data quality for research purposes within EDC systems must meet the requirements of regulatory authorities for standardized submission of clinical trial data and safety reports.

Patient Satisfaction, Quality Attributes, and Organizational Characteristics: A Hierarchical Linear Model Approach.

Patient satisfaction studies have gained more and more attention, and there are many patient satisfaction studies. These studies assume that patients were selected randomly and independently, but patient satisfaction surveys are described as a multistage or hierarchically structured sample. Thus, there is a need to conduct a hierarchical linear model (HLM) analysis with a large number of hospitals.

Different Combining Process Between Male and Female Patients to Reach Their Overall Satisfaction.

Patient satisfaction and how it is measured is an important field of study in healthcare. Consequently, there have been many patient satisfaction studies. However, there is a lack of studies that focused on how male and female patients perceive, or weigh, their overall satisfaction.

The Impact of Self-Rated Health Status on Patient Satisfaction Integration Process.

The purpose of this study was to investigate how patients' self-rated health status (SRHS) is associated with their attribute reaction integration process and, in turn, their overall ratings of hospitals. We collected patient satisfaction data from 70 hospitals by means of a patient satisfaction questionnaire. The sample included patients who were 18 years or older and discharged from the hospital from July 1, 2011, through June 30, 2012.

Impact of Pain on Patient Satisfaction Integration Process: How Patients With Pain Combine Their Health Care Attribute Reactions.

Context: Health care environments have been changing rapidly, and one of the changes is to emphasize patient satisfaction. However, most studies assume that all patients integrate their health care attribute reactions in the same way to arrive at their satisfaction.

Objective: The objective of this study is to investigate how patients' experience of pain influences their attribute reaction integration process and their overall rating of the hospital.

Evaluating the influence of perceived pain control on patient satisfaction in a hospital setting.

The authors evaluated whether a patient's perceived pain control influenced the relationships between four attributes (nursing, physician, staff, and environment) and patient satisfaction. Multiple linear regression analyses were conducted to examine overall satisfaction and intention to recommend, controlling for race, gender, age, and education. The authors found that no matter the level of pain control, nursing was always the most influential attribute in patient satisfaction.

Improving patient satisfaction in hospital care settings.

Health-care managers have to address many aspects of the organization, and patient satisfaction is clearly one of the critical aspects for managers. To respond to the need of health-care managers, there have been many patient satisfaction studies. However, these studies focus on which attributes (factors such as nursing care and physician care) are more influential; they do not provide specific aspects for each attribute.

Improving patient evaluation of hospital care and increasing their intention to recommend: are they the same or different constructs?

Many patient satisfaction studies consider patient satisfaction and intention to recommend as the same constructs. However, we propose to investigate the two constructs separately. This study has utilized patient satisfaction data with 32 hospitals in different locations to investigate how hospital discharged patients combine their attribute reactions to arrive at their evaluation of hospital care and their intention to recommend to others.

Patient satisfaction integration process: are there any racial differences?

Background: Patient satisfaction studies have received strong attention from both health care managers and researchers. Many of them investigate how patients combine their health care attribute reactions to arrive at their overall satisfaction. These studies, however, did not specifically investigate a possible different combining process among different racial groups.

Sevoflurane inhalation at sedative concentrations provides endothelial protection against ischemia-reperfusion injury in humans.

Background: Endothelial cells can be protected against cytokine-induced toxicity by volatile anesthetics. The authors tested whether inhalation of sevoflurane at subanesthetic concentrations provides protection against postocclusive endothelial dysfunction induced by ischemia-reperfusion injury of the forearm in humans.

Methods: Five healthy male volunteers were enrolled in this study with crossover design.