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Implementation of patient pagers in radiation oncology waiting rooms for patient privacy and satisfaction

Overview of attention for article published in BMC Research Notes, January 2018
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Title
Implementation of patient pagers in radiation oncology waiting rooms for patient privacy and satisfaction
Published in
BMC Research Notes, January 2018
DOI 10.1186/s13104-018-3164-5
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Authors

Tasneem Kaleem, Daniel Miller, Mark R. Waddle, Maresciel Yanez, Bonita Gianforti, Steven Buskirk

Abstract

In order to improve privacy, quality, and coordination of care, a patient pager system was introduced to notify patients of daily treatment in the Department of Radiation Oncology. One hundred patients undergoing daily radiation therapy prospectively participated in a six-question survey addressing the paging service, privacy prior to pager use, and demographics. Twelve radiation therapists also participated in a survey addressing privacy and workflow. Survey results from all patient participants revealed that convenience, privacy, ease of use, desire for use for consults and return visits were highly rated as very good to excellent. The top three categories were "ease of use," "convenience" and "privacy." Nineteen patients had the experience of our waiting room prior to introduction of the patient pagers and highly rated "privacy," "efficiency," and "satisfaction." Twelve radiation therapists participated and rated workflow related categories fair to good. Only patient privacy was rated as very good to excellent. Thus, patients and staff highly rated the paging system for privacy protection and satisfaction. However, it did not change overall workflow. Our study shows clinics should prioritize privacy in the waiting room to address the emotional needs of patients and improve satisfaction.

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Unknown 15 100%

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Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 4 27%
Student > Ph. D. Student 2 13%
Student > Doctoral Student 1 7%
Professor 1 7%
Unknown 7 47%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Nursing and Health Professions 3 20%
Business, Management and Accounting 1 7%
Physics and Astronomy 1 7%
Medicine and Dentistry 1 7%
Unknown 9 60%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 1. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 23 January 2018.
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#15,489,831
of 23,018,998 outputs
Outputs from BMC Research Notes
#2,334
of 4,283 outputs
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#270,061
of 441,076 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Research Notes
#67
of 135 outputs
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