Feedback in Medical News

Therapy Technique Cuts Divorce/Separation Rate By Nearly 50 Percent

... and separation rates for couples that used this feedback technique were 46.2 percent less than that of ... investigated the effects of providing ongoing feedback regarding the progress of treatment to both ... problems. Half of the study group had feedback incorporated into their therapy while the other ...

Pennsylvania Patient Safety Authority Issues Annual Report for 2008

... that the program will be delivered statewide once feedback from the pilot sessions is obtained. "The ... so far facilities in the northeast have given feedback that has provided two new educational sessions ... implementing real change in their institutions. feedback gathered during these facility visits will also ...

PeopleStreme Releases RapidEcho Online Tool for Employee Personal Development

... commented, "Individuals want to get instant feedback on core skills, such as, 'What did you think of ... They don't want to wait for months to get feedback from their manager". RapidEcho gives employees a way to get instant, reliable feedback from colleagues, peers, managers, customers or ...

Rate Your Doctor at DrScore.com for Doctor's Day

... Patient feedback is a Gift that Helps Doctors Improve Health Care ... is encouraging all patients to give the gift of feedback by rating their doctors online. "The best gift ... patients and doctors." Obtaining patient feedback and utilizing it to make efficient changes in ...

Synthetic gene circuit allows precise dosing of gene expression

... effect" is achieved by installing a negative feedback loop in the synthetic gene circuit, a concept ... tetracycline repressor back on itself, a negative feedback loop that results in automatic reduction of the ... a great deal of yEGFP and others very little. The feedback loop leveled cell-to-cell differences, affecting ...

DrScore.com Recognizes 'America's Most Loved' Doctor

... same gift by visiting DrScore.com. Whether your feedback is positive or negative, your doctor will ... provide real-time, pertinent, and specific feedback about my personal performance as a physician. ... My associate and I have found the quarterly feedback reports very helpful to see what kind of care we ...

DrScore.com Says: Know Your Source When Going Online To Review Your Doctor's Rating

... satisfaction expert. DrScore.com collects feedback from patients about their doctor visits and then ... created DrScore.com to help doctors get valuable feedback from their patients and as a way for patients to ... the nearly 1,000 doctors who use DrScore to get feedback from their patients. These patient satisfaction ...

Woman's Hospital Selects rL Solutions for Improved Adverse Event and Patient Safety Reporting

... will leverage Risk MonitorPro (R) and feedback MonitorPro(R) for better reporting and analysis of patient feedback and adverse events CAMBRIDGE, MA, Jan. 13 ... management and analysis of adverse events, and feedback MonitorPro(R) to manage and report on ...

DrScore.com Identifies 'Toxic Combination'

... the best care possible, physicians need patient feedback via balanced, online patient surveys such as ... he says. "It wasn't until I started getting feedback from patients that I realized great medical care ... who participate are actively using this level of feedback to improve their quality of care." ...

Guide for Using Survey Kiosks for Instant Customer Feedback Sponsored by Opinionmeter

... of the award winning customer satisfaction feedback system, recently sponsored the publication of ... industry. "Gathering customer feedback as close as possible to the time the customer ... this with Opinionmeter's ability to deliver that feedback in real-time and you have an extremely powerful ...

Politicians May Not Listen ... But Doctors Do, Says DrScore

... in the lobby to final treatment. Negative feedback is a real gift because it helps doctors do ... and give them great medical care. But positive feedback is important, too, because it validates what ... By enabling patients to give specific, detailed feedback to their doctors and providing doctors with the ...

Doctors Get High Marks as Regence Members Share Opinions Online

... Health Care Services for Regence. "We created the feedback feature so members can share experiences and ... According to Clark, 89 percent of those leaving feedback would recommend their provider to someone else. ... the Web site since October 2006. Initially, the feedback feature allowed members to rate providers on ...

UK Physicians Fear New Revalidation Procedures Will Reduce Morale, Decrease Time with Patients and Belittle GP Professionalism, According to New TNS Healthcare Research

... their specialties. More Support for Colleague feedback than for Input from Patients or Caregivers More than half of doctors agree that including feedback from colleagues will enhance the revalidation ... 41% of respondents agree that including patient feedback will improve the revalidation process, and just ...

MU researchers enhancing motion-capture technology to benefit older adults

... current projects, which include an exercise feedback system and a fall recognition system. ... methods, CERT researchers developed an exercise feedback system to increase exercise effectiveness and ... of participants while they exercise, and provides feedback about posture and gait, including stride, balance ...

Caritas Christi Standardizes on rL Solutions to Help Deliver Best in Class Healthcare Quality

... Infection MonitorPro, Risk MonitorPro and feedback MonitorPro, selected rL Solutions because of ... incidents through the entire lifecycle, and feedback MonitorPro feedback and Complaints Management software will transform ...

iGuard.org Presents New Data on Statins at FDA Workshop Demonstrating How Patient-Reported Information Can Enhance Drug Safety Knowledge

... is that there is a great need to consider patient feedback as part of post-marketing safety studies," said ... emails on safety issues and recalls, and monitor feedback from other patients to ensure their drug ... who want to get informed, stay informed and share feedback about their medications. It offers balanced and ...

Patient Safety Authority Issues Annual Report for 2007

... some of which were developed based on feedback from focus groups held with Pennsylvania Patient ... The PSLs would also obtain valuable feedback from the facilities to learn how the Authority ... is beneficial, we just don't enter data - we see feedback as a result of all facilities participating. ...

iGuard.org Alters the Face of E-Health: New Web Service Draws 10,000 New Patients Weekly

... safety. "Since inception, the FDA has given us feedback and direction on how to improve our value to ... told before starting the medication. According to feedback of iGuard.org patients taking a common pain ... to consumers. The combination of patient feedback and side effect analysis is hard to find anywhere ...

Will you be misdiagnosed? -- how diagnostic errors happen

... systems to provide physicians with better feedback on their own errors. Guest Editors Mark L. ... their diagnoses are correct, and that effective feedback regarding their errors is lacking, reinforces ... practice. In any endeavor, "Learning and feedback are inseparable," according to Dr. Gordon L. ...

Tracking and feedback registry helps reduce disparities in breast cancer care

... study to evaluate the impact of a tracking and feedback registry on breast cancer surgery patients. ... medical centers. They implemented a tracking and feedback registry aimed at closing the referral loop for ... surgeon to oncologist. With the new tracking and feedback registry, surgeons were notified by phone and ...

Computer game helps COPD patients breathe better

... regular exercise program over either ventilation feedback or exercise alone, said Dr. Collins. A total ... groups exercise alone, exercise plus ventilation feedback (VF) or VF alone. VF patients had their breathing ... underwent a regimen of exercise and ventilation feedback showed significant improvements in exercise ...

SearchMedica Offers Medical Professionals Six New Specialized Clinical Web Searches

... the upgraded search functionality and share their feedback at SearchMedica.com. SearchMedica provides ... where this topic has come up. We also heard this feedback during medical meetings," added Finnie. "We've ... system and respiratory disorders. Early feedback from SearchMedica's registered user base ...

GetWellNetwork Partners with DAISY Foundation to Recognize Extraordinary Nurses

... Care System Enables Patients to Provide Direct feedback and Award Nurses for Compassionate ... at participating hospitals can provide direct feedback about the nursing staff and nominate deserving ... families. Award recipients are selected based on feedback from hospital staff, as well as patients and ...

Gliding to gold -- world-beating software could boost British swimming

... The software provides instant, in-depth feedback on a swimmers glide technique. Swimmers glide ... used in elite swimming training. First, the feedback it generates is available immediately, so ... the glide. Both the speed and accuracy of the feedback will add to the value of the advice that coaches ...

New Patient Safety Proposed Regulation Aims to Improve Health Care Quality and Patient Safety

... collect, aggregate and analyze data and provide feedback to help clinicians and health care organizations ... and confidential and how clinicians will receive feedback on ways to improve patient safety. Strong ... the proposed regulation until April 14, and their feedback will be used to shape the final regulation. In ...

Scientists from Europe, Israel and the US develop robotic rats to aid in rescue missions

... pathways that function within parallel closed feedback loops, constantly monitoring the signals they ... that it is the complex interactions between the feedback loops that are responsible for the rich and ... concept. 'In order to investigate the role of feedback loops further,' says Prof. David Golomb of Ben ...

Hand-held computers prod older adults to exercise more, Stanford study shows

... physical activity progress twice a day and get feedback on how well they were meeting their goals. After ... like our devices to be able to provide real-time feedback using objective activity as well." In a ... Results indicate that similar "probing" and feedback by a computer program - about a person's eating ...

Regence Enables Members to Share Feedback With Each Other When Researching Health Care Provider Options

... Member feedback feature promotes a more informed health care ... this effort, Regence is launching a member feedback feature in Spring 2008 that enables the health ... the company's member site. The new feedback feature provides Regence members with the means ...

Songbirds offer clues to highly practiced motor skills in humans

... Adult songbirds, meanwhile, rely on auditory feedback to maintain their song, and previous studies by ... the birds are deaf, or receive garbled auditory feedback via a computer-based intervention, the fidelity ... song, and then delivered disruptive auditory feedback to a subset of the vocalizations, or syllables. ...

Samplify Systems Announces Next Generation Signal-Compression Technology, Prism 3.0

... and weak reflections over very short intervals, 100 microns. Traditional feedback gain control techniques adapt the signal level too slowly to reduce ... signals, or risking overload for strong signals. SignalTrak eschews these feedback techniques to provide optimum signal quality over a block-size of as few ...

SpeechEasy Seeks Proposals For Future Research Studies

... proposals which address basic research on responses to perturbed auditory feedback in children between the ages of 8 and 18, including but not limited to ... proposals which address basic research on responses to perturbed auditory feedback in children between the ages of 8 and 18, including but not limited to ...

Endologix Reports 42% Second Quarter 2009 Revenue Growth

... Express Delivery System into the second quarter based on very positive feedback during its limited release in early 2009. We believe this next generation ... necks up to 32 mm in diameter. Physicians continue to provide positive feedback on IntuiTrak's clinical benefits, flexibility and ease-of-use and we look ...

UPDATE: Access Pharmaceuticals to Present at Jesup & Lamont 2009 Growth Stock Conference

... and specifically the very significant and positive initial results and feedback from the commercial launch of MuGard, our FDA approved treatment for oral mucositis. Initial clinical feedback and experience exceeds our expectations." About Access: Access ...

Access Pharmaceuticals to Present at Jesup & Lamont 2009 Growth Stock Conference

... and specifically the very significant and positive initial results and feedback from the commercial launch of MuGard, our FDA approved treatment for oral mucositis. Initial clinical feedback and experience exceeds our expectations." About Access: Access ...

Access Pharmaceuticals to Present at Jessup & Lamont 2009 Growth Stock Conference

... and specifically the very significant and positive initial results and feedback from the commercial launch of MuGard, our FDA approved treatment for oral mucositis. Initial clinical feedback and experience exceeds our expectations." About Access: Access ...

Spectrum Surgical Instruments Receives 2009 World Class Customer Service Award

... and scored in search of perfection. The company monitors customer feedback with every order and also provides a live "chat" feature on ... newly designed website which allows customers to ask questions and provide feedback in real time. Since 1982, Spectrum Surgical Instruments has been ...

GetWellNetwork Continues Growth with Eleven New Hospital Launches and Contract Signings

... GetWellNetwork system allows us to educate, entertain, receive patient feedback and respond to this feedback in real time. The technology, combined with Miami Children's commitment to ...

CyberGlove Systems Hosts Worldwide Contest for New Motion Capture Technology Applications

... new markets are sure to evolve for motion capture and haptic force feedback products. Current industry applications include: motion capture, ... The most sophisticated product, the CyberForce®, adds whole-arm force feedback allowing users to experience the complete sensation of object manipulation ...

Focused Health Solutions Partners With Emmi Solutions to Help Employers Achieve Greater Returns on Their Employee Health Care Investments

... mailing campaigns, Focused Health offers its participants customized feedback reports to monitor healthy behaviors; individually tailored coaching ... and will be used by Focused Health nurses and health coaches during feedback discussions and in creating care plans for participants. Viewers also are ...

Healthcare Staffing Company Medical Solutions Named Among "2009 Best Places to Work in Omaha"

... People Officer was created with input from the result of the employees' feedback from last year's Best Places to Work in Omaha survey. As CPO, she oversees ... and is used to boost satisfaction in the workplace by measuring feedback for participating companies to help them gauge their employee happiness. ...