Category Archive for: "patient experience"

Patient appreciation of student chaplain visits during their hospitalization

December 18, 2017 patient experience, patient satisfaction

Spiritual care is associated with improved health outcomes and higher patient satisfaction. However, chaplains often cover many hospital units and thus may not be able to serve all patients. [...]
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Compassion training in healthcare: what are patients’ perspectives on training healthcare providers?

December 6, 2017 compassion, patient experience

Background: The purpose of this qualitative study was to investigate advanced cancer patients’ perspectives on the importance, feasibility, teaching methods, and issues associated with training [...]
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Spiritual care as person centred care: a thematic analysis of interventions

October 13, 2017 patient experience

What we know already. The Lothian PROM has shown us that chaplaincy benefitted all in this sample not just the faithful, religious or spiritual. However, this deduction arose from statistical [...]
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“I was able to talk about what was on my mind’. The operationalisation of person centred care

October 13, 2017 patient experience

What we know already. Specialist spiritual care can be broken down into discrete items within a questionnaire when grounded in the theory developed in the previous paper. However, in order to [...]
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The construction of the Lothian PROM

October 13, 2017 patient experience

What we know already Patient reported outcome measures (PROMs) are an increasingly popular and prevalent method of ascertaining the impact of an intervention in health. For example there are [...]
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