UK - Quality of Life and Experience of Care in Women With Metastatic Breast Cancer: A Cross-Sectional Survey

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Journal of Pain and Symptom Management - Quality of Life and Experience of Care in Women With Metastatic Breast Cancer: A Cross-Sectional Survey

Conclusion

Despite improvements in treatment and survival of women with metastatic breast cancer, this group reports high symptom burden and dissatisfaction with elements of their care, indicating that alternative models of service delivery should be explored.

blog: The Patient Will Rate You Now

The Patient Will Rate You Now:
By Bob Wachter, MD

These days, I’d never consider trying a new restaurant or hotel without reading the on-line ratings on TripAdvisor or Yelp. I seldom even bother with professional restaurant or travel critics.
Until recently, there was little patient-generated information about doctors, practices or hospitals to help inform patient decisions. But that is rapidly changing, and the results may be every bit as transformative as they have been in traditionally consumer-centric industries like hospitality. Medicine has never thought much of the wisdom of crowds, but the times, as the song goes, they are a-changin’.

abstract: A literature review of quality in lower gastrointestinal endoscopy from the patient perspective.

Abstract

BACKGROUND:

Given the limited state of health care resources, increased demand for colorectal cancer (CRC) screening raises concerns about the quality of endoscopy services. Little is known about quality in colonoscopy and endoscopy from the patient perspective.

OBJECTIVE:

To systematically review the literature on quality that is relevant to patients who require colonoscopy or endoscopy services.

METHODS:

A systematic PubMed search was performed on articles that were published between January 2000 and February 2011.


"Qualitative studies eliciting the patient perspective on what constituted quality in colonoscopy⁄endoscopy were not found."