Beyond Patient Satisfaction

This volume delves into the potential that design thinking can have when applied to organizational systems and structures in health care environments to mitigate risks, reduce medical errors and ultimately improve patient safety, the quality of care, provider well-being, and the overall patient experience.

Why is it that some businesses seem to get it when it comes to customer experience, while others miss it completely? The same could be said of medical practices. Doctors are constantly looking for new ways to improve their practices. The problem is they're often looking in the wrong places. Beyond Bedside Manner guides the practice to redefine the doctor-patient relationship in ways that create much more value for the doctor, the patient, and the practice. With insights gained across 3 decades of working with practices across many specialties, author Shareef Mahdavi shows the way to build the modern practice based on creating a memorable patient experience on par with our best customer experiences.

Create an exceptional experience for your patients, and those patients will happily pay you for it. Patient satisfaction is no longer relevant. Patient experience, however, is relevant now more than ever. Patients today are proactive and armed with knowledge. Because they have better customer experiences elsewhere, they have come to expect, if not demand, a new way of interacting with you-their doctors and healthcare providers. In our Experience Economy, people will always pay more for a superior experience: Starbucks turned the traditional "grab a cup of Joe and go" service into a lounge concept where people may linger, eat treats, listen to pleasant music, and enjoy free Wi-Fi. Amazon has primed their customers with immediate benefits of the Buy Now button. Apple has demonstrated how thoughtful and integrated design offers an enjoyable, cohesive experience. Disney, Sandals, Club Med, and Ritz Carlton give their customers such an amazing experience that they actually want to take home memories. Providing an exceptional patient experience, then, is pioneering work for all doctors and providers, whether you're chained to the public health system (like I was), in concierge medicine, or in private practice. This book will show: how your intention and presentation affect whether your patient has a pleasant experience under your care, how your revenue will grow as you pay closer attention to what works and doesn't work in your space, and how your experience is just as relevant as your patients'. By setting and exceeding patient expectations, not only will you be happier, so will your patients. All by you focusing on: Creating a more pleasing working environment for you and your staff Providing for your patients' unseen needs and preferences Elevating patient experience from start to finish, from onboarding to lasting memories If you're running around without enough time to meet the demands of your growing list of patients, and without the mental, physical, and financial resources to do so, then you know something has to change. Creating an exceptional and elevated patient experience is not one more thing to add to your to-do list. It's embedded in everything that you do. Let me show you how.

Patient Satisfaction Pays shows you how to strengthen your practice in the areas by which patients measure quality service. Find a treasury of practical techniques to increase patient satisfaction in this unique handbook.

Using Predictive Analytics to Improve Healthcare Outcomes Winner of the American Journal of Nursing (AJN) Informatics Book of the Year Award 2021! Discover a comprehensive overview, from established leaders in the field, of how to use predictive analytics and other analytic methods for healthcare quality improvement. Using Predictive Analytics to Improve Healthcare Outcomes delivers a 16-step process to use predictive analytics to improve operations in the complex industry of healthcare. The book includes numerous case studies that make use of predictive analytics and other mathematical methodologies to save money and improve patient outcomes. The book is organized as a “how-to” manual, showing how to use existing theory and tools to achieve desired positive outcomes. You will learn how your organization can use predictive analytics to identify the most impactful operational interventions before changing operations. This includes: A thorough introduction to data, caring theory, Relationship-Based Care®, the Caring Behaviors Assurance System©, and healthcare operations, including how to build a measurement model and improve organizational outcomes. An exploration of analytics in action, including comprehensive case studies on patient falls, palliative care, infection reduction, reducing rates of readmission for heart failure, and more—all resulting in action plans allowing clinicians to make changes that have been proven in advance to result in positive outcomes. Discussions of how to refine quality improvement initiatives, including the use of “comfort” as a construct to illustrate the importance of solid theory and good measurement in adequate pain management. An examination of international organizations using analytics to improve operations within cultural context. Using Predictive Analytics to Improve Healthcare Outcomes is perfect for executives, researchers, and quality improvement staff at healthcare organizations, as well as educators teaching mathematics, data science, or quality improvement. Employ this valuable resource that walks you through the steps of managing and optimizing outcomes in your clinical care operations.

The book explores the patient's perception of care to identify the drivers and implications of patient satisfaction. ... . The second edition offers significant new material, including : Enhanced material on staff buy-in to patient satisfaction initiatives - A new chapter that provides fifty simple and innovative improvement ideas - Additional material on staff and physician satisfaction - A new chapter on managing diverse patients and staff - New insight on compliant management and scripting. [Ed.]