Discussing adverse events with patients improves how they rate their hospital care

A survey of patients had who experienced some sort of adverse event during their hospitalisation found that, although caregivers discussed the event with patients less than half the time, those patients to whom the adverse event had been disclosed rated the quality of their care higher than did patients whose caregivers did not address the problem. The report from the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) Institute for Health Policy appears in the 9 November Archives of Internal Medicine...

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