Changing stroke rehab and research worldwide now.Time is Brain! trillions and trillions of neurons that DIE each day because there are NO effective hyperacute therapies besides tPA(only 12% effective). I have 523 posts on hyperacute therapy, enough for researchers to spend decades proving them out. These are my personal ideas and blog on stroke rehabilitation and stroke research. Do not attempt any of these without checking with your medical provider. Unless you join me in agitating, when you need these therapies they won't be there.

What this blog is for:

My blog is not to help survivors recover, it is to have the 10 million yearly stroke survivors light fires underneath their doctors, stroke hospitals and stroke researchers to get stroke solved. 100% recovery. The stroke medical world is completely failing at that goal, they don't even have it as a goal. Shortly after getting out of the hospital and getting NO information on the process or protocols of stroke rehabilitation and recovery I started searching on the internet and found that no other survivor received useful information. This is an attempt to cover all stroke rehabilitation information that should be readily available to survivors so they can talk with informed knowledge to their medical staff. It lays out what needs to be done to get stroke survivors closer to 100% recovery. It's quite disgusting that this information is not available from every stroke association and doctors group.

Saturday, December 1, 2012

Just say no to linking patient satisfaction with dollars

I would have to disagree with these  doctors. How the hell are newer and better practices going to make it into clinical practice?  Something needs to be tried, especially in stroke rehab. My doctor should have not received any payment. It doesn't take much training to write a prescription of ET(Evaluate and Treat) to speech, physical and occupational therapists.

This is where if no goal/objectives are set at the beginning of the relationship/project you will never know when you have objectively met those requirements. I know this is the businessperson in me talking but I would like to have such a discussion when I start any relationship with my medical staff. None of my medical staff has ever asked what my goals are and for that reason would fail any satisfaction question.
Just say no to linking patient satisfaction with dollars

 U.S. Ties Hospital Payments to Making Patients Happy

Patient satisfaction: When a doctor’s judgment risks a poor rating

How patient satisfaction can kill

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