PMID- 30854467
OWN - NLM
STAT- PubMed-not-MEDLINE
LR  - 20231006
IS  - 2381-4764 (Print)
IS  - 2381-473X (Electronic)
VI  - 3
IP  - 12
DP  - 2018 Jan
TI  - The cost of not addressing the communication barriers faced by hospitalized 
      patients.
PG  - 99-112
LID - 10.1044/persp3.SIG12.99 [doi]
AB  - Preventable adverse events (AEs) lead to poorer patient outcomes, added patient 
      suffering and dissatisfaction, longer hospital stays, and billions in additional 
      annual healthcare spending. Patients facing barriers to communication are three 
      times more likely to experience a preventable adverse event than patients who 
      faced no communication barriers. National data on hospital admissions, incidence 
      and cost of preventable AEs, and the odds ratio regarding the risk of preventable 
      AEs in people facing communication barriers were used to estimate potential 
      benefits of improving patient communication. Reducing communication barriers 
      could lead to an estimated reduction of 671,440 preventable AE cases and a cost 
      savings of $6.8 billion annually. Facilitating patient-provider communication is 
      an ethical and financial imperative. A multi-pronged approach, including 
      increased awareness of and support for speech-language pathology services, is 
      essential to creating a communication-friendly hospital culture, reducing patient 
      suffering, and decreasing the financial cost of preventable AEs. Speech-language 
      pathologists and allied healthcare professionals play a critical role in 
      facilitating patient-provider communication and improving patient outcomes.
FAU - Hurtig, Richard R
AU  - Hurtig RR
AD  - University of Iowa.
FAU - Alper, Rebecca M
AU  - Alper RM
AD  - Temple University.
FAU - Berkowitz, Benjamin
AU  - Berkowitz B
AD  - Stanford University.
LA  - eng
GR  - R43 NR016406/NR/NINR NIH HHS/United States
GR  - R44 NR016406/NR/NINR NIH HHS/United States
PT  - Journal Article
PL  - United States
TA  - Perspect ASHA Spec Interest Groups
JT  - Perspectives of the ASHA special interest groups
JID - 101682248
PMC - PMC6402813
MID - NIHMS975159
OTO - NOTNLM
OT  - Adverse Medical Events
OT  - Augmentative and Alternative Communication
OT  - Costs of Adverse Events
OT  - Patient safety and prevention of medical error
OT  - Patient-Provider Communication
EDAT- 2018/01/01 00:00
MHDA- 2018/01/01 00:01
PMCR- 2019/03/06
CRDT- 2019/03/12 06:00
PHST- 2019/03/12 06:00 [entrez]
PHST- 2018/01/01 00:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2018/01/01 00:01 [medline]
PHST- 2019/03/06 00:00 [pmc-release]
AID - 10.1044/persp3.SIG12.99 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Perspect ASHA Spec Interest Groups. 2018 Jan;3(12):99-112. doi: 
      10.1044/persp3.SIG12.99.