Active Student Participation May Enhance Patient Centeredness : Patients' Assessments of the Clinical Education Ward for Integrative Medicine
Joint Authors
Neumann, Melanie
Tauschel, Diethard
Scheffer, Christian
Edelhäuser, Friedrich
Lutz, Gabriele
Valk-Draad, Maria
Source
Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine
Issue
Vol. 2013, Issue 2013 (31 Dec. 2013), pp.1-8, 8 p.
Publisher
Hindawi Publishing Corporation
Publication Date
2013-03-19
Country of Publication
Egypt
No. of Pages
8
Main Subjects
Abstract EN
Objectives.
To examine the impact of active student participation on quality of care in an integrative inpatient setting.
Methods.
Over a two-year period, we surveyed all patients treated on the Clinical Education Ward for Integrative Medicine (CEWIM), where final-year medical students are integrated into an internal medicine ward complementing conventional medicine with anthroposophic medicine.
Patients treated on the regular wards of the same internal medicine department served as the control group (CG).
General quality of care was studied with the Picker Inpatient Questionnaire, physician empathy with the Consultation and Relational Empathy measure, and patient enablement with the Patient Enablement Index.
ANCOVA was used to control for covariates while examining significant differences between both patient groups.
Results.
Comparison of the CG wards and the CEWIM revealed no significant differences in medical treatment success.
The CEWIM, however, achieved better results for physician-patient interaction, physician empathy, and patient enablement.
Eighty Percent of the CEWIM patients rated student participation as positively impacting quality of care.
Conclusion.
Our results indicate that incorporating students in an integrative healthcare setting may result in greater patient centeredness.
Further studies are needed to determine whether this is due to organizational advantages, students' empathic activity, the impact of teaching, or learner-teacher interaction.
American Psychological Association (APA)
Scheffer, Christian& Tauschel, Diethard& Neumann, Melanie& Lutz, Gabriele& Valk-Draad, Maria& Edelhäuser, Friedrich. 2013. Active Student Participation May Enhance Patient Centeredness : Patients' Assessments of the Clinical Education Ward for Integrative Medicine. Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine،Vol. 2013, no. 2013, pp.1-8.
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Modern Language Association (MLA)
Lutz, Gabriele…[et al.]. Active Student Participation May Enhance Patient Centeredness : Patients' Assessments of the Clinical Education Ward for Integrative Medicine. Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine No. 2013 (2013), pp.1-8.
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American Medical Association (AMA)
Scheffer, Christian& Tauschel, Diethard& Neumann, Melanie& Lutz, Gabriele& Valk-Draad, Maria& Edelhäuser, Friedrich. Active Student Participation May Enhance Patient Centeredness : Patients' Assessments of the Clinical Education Ward for Integrative Medicine. Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine. 2013. Vol. 2013, no. 2013, pp.1-8.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-495264
Data Type
Journal Articles
Language
English
Notes
Includes bibliographical references
Record ID
BIM-495264