Table 1.
Comparison of Resident Ratings of a Patient-Centered Care Rotation and Standard Inpatient Rotation
| Evaluation Items | Outstanding Rating (7 – 9) † | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Intervention Team (N = 51) | Standard Teams (N = 163) | p-value | |
| N (%) | N (%) | ||
| Improving knowledge of your patients as people | 48 (94) | 119 (73) | <0.01* |
| Improving the degree to which you addressed patient adherence issues | 46 (90) | 111 (69) | <0.01* |
| Improving your communication with patients about their transition out of the hospital | 48 (94) | 121 (75) | <0.01* |
| Relevance to your professional/educational needs | 42 (82) | 135 (83) | 1.00 |
| Improving your knowledge base | 40 (85) | 132 (81) | 0.39 |
| Improving your clinical reasoning ability and judgment | 41 (80) | 142 (88) | 0.25 |
| Improving your patient management skills | 44 (86) | 142 (88) | 0.85 |
| Improving your teaching skills | 38 (75) | 110 (70) | 0.60 |
| Improving your understanding of diagnostic tests | 38 (75) | 117 (72) | 0.86 |
| Improving your record keeping skills | 39 (76) | 118 (73) | 0.72 |
| Improving your history/physical examination skills | 39 (76) | 116 (72) | 0.59 |
| Overall rating | 44 (86) | 127 (78) | 0.23‡ |
* P-value is significant at p ≤ 0.05
† Response options were from 1 to 9 (1 = poor, 5 = good, 9 = outstanding). We compared proportions of respondents choosing 7 to 9, the highest rating, using Fisher exact test
‡ p < 0.01 for full response scale, using Wilcoxon rank sum test