Shikha Jain, Founder, Chair of the Board (Former CEO) at Women in Medicine and Associate Professor of Medicine at The University of Illinois Cancer Center, shared a post on LinkedIn:
“It’s Sunday and I’m at the hospital.
And I keep thinking about how much we expect patients and families to understand without ever explaining how the system actually works.
Many people do not know doctors usually round once a day, and that window may be their best chance to ask questions. Most do not know they can ask to have key members of their family on the phone at the same time.
We talk a lot in healthcare about patient experience. We do not talk nearly enough about the communication infrastructure, or lack of it, that shapes that experience from the start. Informed patients have better outcomes. That is not opinion. That is evidence.
What is your health system doing to prepare patients for what a hospital admission actually looks like?”
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