Are there ways to determine if a particular hospital is the right one to treat your problem? According to a recent US New & World Report article (Iink below), there are some factors to be considered. Factor such as patient volumes, surgeon/surgery volumes, nurse staffing and more are discussed. The question remains, can you reasonably investigate all these factors before going to the hospital AND can you then choose to be admitted to the hospital you select? After you read the article below, try some out some of the evaluation sites listed -- did you find them helpful? Would your findings change where you would want to go to the hospital?
http://health.usnews.com/health-news/best-hospitals/articles/2010/07/14/when-a-hospital-is-bad-for-you.html
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ReplyDeleteAmy Rollman
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I think this ties into what we were talking about in class today in the way that we do not know what we are getting when we go to the doctors. We do not know exactly what we are paying for because we have only biased opinions to go by. However, with these four recommendations we can at least have some general guidance of what to look for in terms of this service industry and its outcomes.
I have been faced with this problem recently. My mother has been diagnosed with breast cancer and it was really hard to decide on which specialist she should see. Even though we asked for recommendations we still did not know what we were going to get. I believe that there may not be an EXACT way to find the "perfect" help, but the four recommendations in the article are a start.
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