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

Published April 30, 2025

A hospital gown is essentially a patient uniform. Yet, the typical ``tie in the...

A concept analysis of the patient experience

Published April 27, 2023

Patient experience, an essential indicator of quality patient care, is of increasing importance to...

Seeking answers through the pain

Published April 27, 2023

This article tells the story of the history and outcome of a 64-year-old woman...

Cancer Experience of Care Improvement Collaboratives in the National Health Service in England

Published November 2, 2022

Going From an Academic Medical Center to a Community Hospital: Patient Experiences with Transfers Going from an academic medical center to a community hospital: Patient experiences with transfers

Published November 2, 2022

Determinants of ambulatory patients’ satisfaction with encounter at core service stations in a tertiary hospital of a developing country

Published November 2, 2022

Outpatient visit modality and parallel patient satisfaction: A multi-site cohort analysis of telemedicine and in-person visits during the COVID-19 pandemic

Published November 2, 2022

From liability to asset: A large health system’s approach to transforming hospital food

Published April 28, 2022

Historically, hospitals are infamous for poor food quality. Valuing food as a tenant of...

Finding common threads: How patients, physicians and nurses perceive the patient gown

Published November 19, 2020

Enhancing emergency care environments: Supporting suicidal distress and self-harm presentations through environmental safeguards and the built environment

Published November 13, 2019

Can doctors improve the patient experience by rearranging the furniture and equipment in their office? A video recorded simulation

Published June 26, 2019

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

Published June 26, 2019

A case study of the patient wait experience in an emergency department with therapy dogs

Published June 26, 2019

What constitutes the patient experience of children? Findings from the photo elicitation and the video diary study

Published July 25, 2018