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Patients care about the clothes doctors wear

(HealthDay)—Patients do in fact care what doctors wear, according to a study recently published in BMJ Open. Christopher M. Petrilli, M.D., from the VA Ann Arbor Healthcare System in Michigan, and colleagues conducted a survey among a convenience sample of 4,062 patients recruited from 10 academic medical centers between June 2015 and October 2016. The […]

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Recent years have seen U.S. military reinventing trauma care

(HealthDay)—The U.S. military has reinvented trauma care, offering hope for changing approaches to health care, according to a blog post published online July 3 in Health Affairs. Arthur Kellermann, M.D., M.P.H., from the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences in Bethesda, Md., and colleagues write about the U.S. military’s transformation of trauma care experienced […]

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Doctors usually empathetic in pediatric ICU care conferences

(HealthDay)—Physicians frequently respond with empathy during pediatric intensive care unit care conferences, though their responses are often buried within other data or missed, according to a study published online July 6 in JAMA Network Open. Tessie W. October, M.D., M.P.H., from the George Washington University School of Medicine in Washington, D.C., and colleagues conducted a […]

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Health Care Technology Impacts Younger Patient Satisfaction

THURSDAY, June 28, 2018 — Health care communication technology is a determinant of patient satisfaction in younger patients, according to a report published by Black Book Market Research LLC. Black Book collected over 57,000 viewpoints on information technology and outsourced vendor performance and provided interested sectors of the clinical technology industry with comprehensive comparison data. […]