Clinicians' and managers' responses to patients' complaints
Clinicians' and managers' responses to patients' complaints
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临床医生和管理人员对患者投诉的回应
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2007
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R. Natangelo
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R. Natangelo
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to discuss the analysis of complaints lodged by patients and how the complainants' letters are handled by health boards and clinicians.Design/methodology/approach – A retrospective analysis of patients' complaints lodged with an independent voluntary citizens' association in Milan and, at the same time, against the hospital administration offices or the consultants and responses returned by the hospitals in reply to the patients. The authors assessed: the reasons for the complaints according to the citizen; the nature of the complaint according to a medical expert revue; and the handling of the complaint process by managers.Findings – For 83 of 151 people (55 per cent), the reason was compensation for injury or pain. According to the medical review, in 54 cases (35.7 per cent), the main themes emerging were mainly “perceived” poor quality of care. Together, or alone, were problems of “technical” quality of care. A total of 94 complaints (62.2 per cent) had been dealt...