Improvement of physician wellness can improve the organization's wellbeing and employee health, and physician wellness should receive the same priority as patient care and financial viability.
Through this letter, further clarification was made on the purpose of the study that it was exclusively intended for use in improvement of physician performance and we emphasized that the main purpose of this study is to assess the feasibility, reliability, and validity of implementing the MSF system in our hospital.
27 Improvements in smoking ascertainment were also reported in another study of a systematic approach, involving an "improvement team" of physicians, nurses, and the medical director in partnership with the New Hampshire tobacco prevention and control programme.
We additionally explored related improvements of physician performance, as reflected by patient judgments regarding the quality of patient care.
First, based on existing evidence in other fields of research [ 56], we hypothesize that empowerment of disability claimants will lead to improvement of the physician-patient communication, operationalized by the outcomes patient satisfaction and physician satisfaction.
However, even if causality between parameters cannot be determined, improving some of these variables may also have a positive influence on the other parameters (including compliance), thus allowing for other possible interventions (such as psychoeducation, improvement of patient-physician relationship, etc).
These findings are beneficial for the prevention of medical disputes and improvement of patient-physician communication.
A better understanding might well lead to an improvement of the physician-patient relationship.
This approach makes it possible to check, adjust and increase the information available to the evaluators, turning the audit into a process of ongoing improvement of the physician's practice.
