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A Systematic Review of Evidence on the Links Between Patient Experience and Clinical Safety and Effectiveness by Cathal Doyle; Laura Lennox; Derek Bell is a Medicine article available to read on EtoBox.
## Objective To explore evidence on the links between patient experience and clinical safety and effectiveness outcomes. ## Design Systematic review. ## Setting A wide range of settings within primary and secondary care including hospitals and primary care centres. ## Participants A wide range of demographic groups and age groups. ## Primary and secondary outcome measures A broad range of patient safety and clinical effectiveness outcomes including mortality, physical symptoms, length of stay and adherence to treatment. ## Results This study, summarising evidence from 55 studies, indicates consistent positive associations between patient experience, patient safety and clinical effectiveness for a wide range of disease areas, settings, outcome measures and study designs. It demonstrates positive associations between patient experience and self-rated and objectively measured health outcomes; adherence to recommended clinical practice and medication; preventive care (such as health-promoting behaviour, use of screening services and immunisation); and resource use (such as hospitalisation, length of stay and primary-care visits). There is some evidence of positive associations between
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- Author
- Cathal Doyle; Laura Lennox; Derek Bell
- Publisher
- BMJ
- Published
- 2013
- Language
- EN
- Field
- Medicine (Health Sciences)