Does the use of volunteers and playbooks in pediatric primary care clinic waiting rooms influence patient experience?

What Makes a Hospital Gown Functional? A Comparative Case Study of Effective Patient-Centered Design Practices in Four (n=4) Hospital Gowns

A hospital gown is essentially a patient uniform. Yet, the typical “tie in the back” hospital gown, standard garb for routine medical procedure, can have great influence over key intervention factors like receptiveness to treatment and patient self-esteem. Thus, the goals of this study are two-fold: 1) To understand patient perceptions of the standard hospital