How do patients define quality medical care?

One view here from a doctor.
How do patients define quality medical care?
At the risk of hubris, I will offer some thoughts:

Deans' thoughts in red

1. Patients want a physician to listen carefully, look them in the eye, and address their concerns.
2. Patients want correct diagnoses. This one fails a fair number of times in young person strokes. It fails all the time in an objective damage diagnosis. With no damage diagnosis you can never correlate interventions to results with any accuracy.
3. Patients want to understand "the plan" - what is the diagnosis, what is the proposed treatment, what diagnostic tests are ordered and why.  There is no plan in stroke rehabilitation, it is all winging it. Why do you think you are told; 'All strokes are different, all stroke recoveries are different?'
4. Patients want access to their physician - timely appointments, email, text, phone calls - and do not want unnecessary visits scheduled
5. Patients want to avoid medication side effects. Statins, warfarin and blood pressure meds.
6. Patients want cost considered when at all possible. Really!

Get With The Guidelines-Stroke hospitals more likely to provide guideline-recommended treatment

God the arrogant stupidity in full flower here. No one can even see what the guidelines are so we patients can prove that they are way too little and totally out-of-date. This just proves once again what Amy Farber has to say.
For the past five years Farber has been battling not only her own disease but also the wall of resistance erected by those who believe that a patient can make about as much of a meaningful contribution to the process of scientific discovery as a laboratory rat.
Hell the rats know more than those who hide guidelines like this.
http://www.sciencecodex.com/get_with_the_guidelinesstroke_hospitals_more_likely_to_provide_guidelinerecommended_treatment-120966

Information, at the point where it’s needed, can save a life

For all us patients, Dave has some good points to make.
http://epatientdave.com/2012/06/03/information-at-the-point-where-its-needed-can-save-a-life-new-speech/
The Kanter Family Foundation “was born of the frustrations [Joseph Kanter] faced as a prostate cancer patient unable to obtain scientific evidence about ‘what works best’ in health care, based on the collective real-world experiences of other patients – evidence that would have helped me, and others like me, make better informed, life-or-death health decisions.”
This sounds exactly like what is wrong with stroke care. With only a 10% success rate for full recovery, we need Dr. Algorithm.