Improving Patient Safety and Patient-Provider Communication.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

Many hospitalized patients experience barriers to effective patient-provider communication that can negatively impact their care. These barriers include difficulty physically accessing the nurse call system, communicating about pain and other needs, or both. For many patients, these barriers are a result of their admitting condition and not of an underlying chronic disability. Speech-language pathologists have begun to address patients' short-term communication needs with an array of augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) strategies.

Method

This study used a between-groups experimental design to evaluate the impact of providing patients with AAC systems so that they could summon help and communicate with their nurses. The study examined patients' and nurses

SUBMITTER: Hurtig RR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8188878 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature