Center for Patient and Professional Advocacy Archive — Page 1 of 2
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February 10, 2025
Regional Hospitals adopt Vanderbilt Health professional accountability programs
The Vanderbilt Center for Patient and Professional Advocacy has exported its system for professional accountability to some 300 hospitals and physician groups around the country. Now it's the turn for Vanderbilt Health's Regional Hospitals. -
June 18, 2024
Study tallies reports of unprofessional behavior among physicians
Reports from 193 hospitals were analyzed. It turns out that surgeons draw the most complaints. -
May 16, 2024
Clinician accountability program from VUMC associated with large savings
A program run by Vanderbilt University Medical Center that provides peer feedback to high-risk clinicians was associated with a significant decrease in malpractice claims costs at a large orthopaedic surgery practice, according to a recent study. -
April 13, 2023
Low-professionalism residents later draw higher patient complaints: study
A Vanderbilt study finds a strong association between lower ratings for interpersonal communication skills among medical residents in their last year of training and greater likelihood of unsolicited patient complaints among doctors during their first year of employment after training. -
January 3, 2023
Study shows peer messaging tool can be successfully implemented in the nursing workforce
A new study shows that a tool developed at Vanderbilt University Medical Center to address disrespectful workplace behaviors through trained peer-to-peer messaging can be successfully implemented in the nursing workforce with the appropriate support. -
July 7, 2022
Professionalism and patient outcomes
A study of more than 70,000 trauma patients found that those who received care from a service with a high proportion of physicians modeling unprofessional behavior were at a 24% increased risk of death or complications. -
April 9, 2020
VUMC study named as JAMA Surgery’s top paper
The world’s No.1 ranked surgery journal, JAMA Surgery, has announced that a June 2019 study led by researchers at Vanderbilt University Medical Center was the journal’s top paper of the year as measured by Altmetric Attention Score.