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Authors

Amit Singh, Cook Children’s Medical Center; Anne Burnett Marion School of Medicine, Texas Christian University, Forth Worth, Texas, UNITED STATES
Syed Ahmed, Endeavor Health Care System, Northwest Community Hospital, Arlington Heights, Illinois, UNITED STATES
James Castellone, Eastern Connecticut Health Network, Manchester, Connecticut, UNITED STATES
Michael H Kanter, Kaiser Permanente Bernard J Tyson School of Medicine, Pasadena, California; Southern California Permanente Medical Group, Research and Evaluation, Pasadena, California, UNITED STATES
Mikelle Key-Solle, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, North Carolina, UNITED STATES
Sherry Kroll, Hartford Healthcare Medical Group, Putnam, Connecticut, UNITED STATES
Paul A Lansdowne, Obstetrics & Gynecology, Methodist Health System, Dallas, Texas, UNITED STATES
Winnie Lee, Cambridge Memorial Hospital, Cambridge, Ontario, Canada; Michael G. DeGroote School of Medicine, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, CANADA
Swati Mehta, Vituity; Commonspirit Sequoia Hospital, Redwood City, California, UNITED STATES
Sofie Morgan, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, Arkansas, UNITED STATES
Sephora Morrison, Children’s National Hospital, Washington, DC, UNITED STATES
Susan N Nathan, Department of Medicine VA Boston Healthcare System, West Roxbury, Massachusetts; Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts; Department of Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, UNITED STATES
Sachin Patel, Respiratory Consultants affiliated with North Memorial Health, Robbinsdale, Minnesota, UNITED STATES
Alexie Puran, Pediatric Emergency Medicine, NYC Health and Hospitals, Harlem, New York; Columbia University, New York City, New York, UNITED STATES
Donald Wickline, Cone Health, Greensboro, North Carolina, UNITED STATES
Liza DiLeo Thomas, Ochsner Health System, New Orleans, Louisiana; Ochsner Clinical School, New Orleans, Louisiana, UNITED STATES

Abstract

Patient experience work can be viewed by some physicians as outside their scope of practice and therefore the responsibility of non-medical providers. Assumptions may also be made by providers about what patient experience work is and is not. These myths can make it difficult to pursue meaningful patient experience related work that is in fact rooted in evidence showing improved outcomes. Moreover, these myths can downplay the importance of patient experience improvement work discouraging physicians who may be interested from pursuing it. In order to combat common myths that can be propagated about patient experience, the authors will cite research to dispel commonly held beliefs and instead convert them into truths that demonstrate patient experience work truly is essential to healthcare organizations and should be pursued by clinicians as part of their non-clinical work.

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