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Patients' knowledge of their caregivers' names. A teaching-hospital study
D Y Brockopp1, B N Franey, D Sage-Smith
1University Hospital, University of Kentucky, Lexington.
Hospital Topics
|January 1, 1992
Abstract:
In busy hospitals--particularly teaching hospitals--ensuring that patients know the names of those attending them is a task often given low priority. Yet such knowledge is a crucial element in establishing the high-priority patient-provider relationship, and certainly one within hospitals' control. In a university teaching hospital, the authors tested patients' knowledge of names before and after the use of an information sheet listing their particular caregivers.