healthcare provider’s need to have patients follow

What is your role in healthcare?

Generally how confident are you that patients understand and will follow the physician instructions?

Preoperative Instructions

What are the most common impacts of not following the preoperative instructions? (e.g. rescheduling surgery, any costs, etc.)

What are the most common impacts of not following the discharged instructions?

On average how many readmission cases do you see in a month because of failure of patient compliance (with the discharged instructions)?

Less than 5%

6%-50%

More than 50%

Of the following options which do you think would best improve discharge communications?

Spending more discharge time with the patient

Remove medical jargon

Promote sharing of instructions with family members

Would you (or your team) be willing to participate in changing the discharge process if it improves patient compliance?

Yes

No

Other

Would providing a mobile app to deliver orders increase your confidence in patient compliance?

Yes

No

I don't know

Please provide comments we can share with others about patient's compliance to instructions/protocols