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...aspects of care can't be assessed without input from the patient: treatment of pain, for instance. (About a third of HCAHPS surveyed patients said their pain was not always treated adequately.) Doctors also want to make sure that patient-doctor communication is up to par. Patients who fully understand care instructions when they leave the hospital, for example, are more likely to stay out of the emergency room down the line. In total, the HCAHPS survey asked 27 questions about patients' demographic characteristics and eight areas of patient perceptions: communication with doctors, communication with nurses, quality of nursing services...
Family Politics I found Elizabeth Gilbert's essay "A Family Divided" to be eminently sad [Oct. 20]. An Obama supporter, Gilbert tells us she is "losing sleep" over the possibility that her father will vote for McCain. She worries that it "could somehow threaten our affection." Really? I understand that many people are passionate in their political beliefs, but to obsess over your own father's political preferences to the point where you want to "scold him or force him to accept [your] worldview" strikes me as rather extreme and narrow-minded. Salvatore Astorina, BROOKLYN...
...understand it, the settlement contains too many potential limitations on access to and use of the books by members of the higher education community and by patrons of public libraries,” Darnton wrote...
...whoever he may be—needs to have the best thinking around him,” Scowcroft, who has not endorsed either Barack Obama or John McCain, said. “There are problems that come from areas of the world we don’t understand...
...understand that the decision to remove nutrition information from the cards is a visible change, and there are differing opinions as to whether or not it was the best decision. Even among health professionals, we acknowledge that there are differing opinions on this topic. To fully explore these issues, an expanded committee will begin meeting in early November to talk more about this decision and about how to best meet students’ needs. We see this as an opportunity to develop avenues for further education and awareness around these concerns. More information related to these initiatives will be forthcoming...