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Emergency Department Volunteers: Defining the position and its effect on the Patient Experience

A Thesis submitted to The University of Arizona College of Medicine - Phoenix in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Medicine. / Research Question: Will trained volunteers significantly affect patient
experience
compared to educational fliers or no intervention?
Background: Patient experience continues to be an important issue with our nation’s healthcare
system especially with the adoption of Value Based Purchasing for hospital reimbursement. With the
use of Honor Health Scottsdale’s large number of volunteers, we hoped to design and develop a
program that will improve experience for patients presenting to a community based Emergency
Department.
Objective: To evaluate the impact of Emergency Department Volunteers on the patient experience.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:arizona.edu/oai:arizona.openrepository.com:10150/627170
Date30 March 2018
CreatorsHeller, Paul
ContributorsThe University of Arizona College of Medicine - Phoenix, Samaddar, Kris MD
PublisherThe University of Arizona.
Source SetsUniversity of Arizona
Languageen_US
Detected LanguageEnglish
TypeThesis
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