The Effect of Developing Patient Compendiums for Critical Pathways on Patient Satisfaction

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Abstract
We examined the impact of developing a patient com pendium to a critical pathway on patient satisfaction scores. It was our hypothesis that by sharing the con tents of a critical pathway, by using a patient compen dium, we would improve patient satisfaction by establishing realistic patient expectations for patients undergoing cardiac bypass graft surgery. A satisfaction survey was sent to patients before the hospital began to use the patient compendium to the pathway and to another group of patients after initiation of a compen dium. Although there were some trends suggesting an improvement in patient satisfaction scores, there was no statistical difference in satisfaction before or after the compendium was in use.

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