Exploring Postpartum Patient Satisfaction Among Spanish-Speaking Mothers: An Audio Documentary
Exploring Postpartum Patient Satisfaction Among Spanish-Speaking Mothers: An Audio Documentary from Liisa Ogburn on Vimeo. Postpartum satisfaction surveys are an important patient-reported indicator of healthcare quality and patient response to such surveys may impact hospital reimbursement in the near future. Identifying barriers to participation is a key element to improving healthcare quality assessment and serving [...]
Work-Related: A Coal Miner’s Story
Work-related: A Coal Miner’s Story from Liisa Ogburn on Vimeo. Work culture and local community economics can significantly influence a worker’s decision to report work-related injuries. However, these factors are not readily visible in the exam room, and too often medical providers assume an over-reporting of injuries under Worker’s Compensation. As a senior resident in [...]
Support a Resident to Participate in Documenting Medicine
Documenting Medicine from Liisa Ogburn on Vimeo. To date, seventeen Duke physician residents and fellows representing nine different programs (surgery, pediatrics, child and adult psychiatry, emergency medicine, medicine/psychiatry, palliative/geriatrics care, radiology, cardiology, occupational and community medicine) have participated in this pilot program, which gives residents the tools and equipment to document patient and provider [...]
Documenting Medicine: A Day in the Life of a Patient
This four-day intensive workshop is designed for people with little documentary experience who are interested in using photography and audio to tell the story of a person with a serious medical condition. Students will see examples of relevant work, learn the fundamentals of capturing good quality sound and images, discuss the ethics and constraints of [...]
Life in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit: One Mother’s Story
In the United States, more than half a million babies are born prematurely each year (12.8% of all births). This is an increase of more than 36% since the 1980s. More than 70% are born between 34 and 36 weeks. 22% are born between 28 and 33 weeks; 6% are born before 28 weeks. Duke [...]
Hospice
This year, about 2.5 million Americans will die. About 900,000 of them, or three in ten, will get hospice care in their last weeks or months. Hospice is specialized care for terminally ill patients with less than six months to live. It offers a way in which family, doctors, nurses, pastors, and the community can [...]
Frequent Flyers in the Emergency Room
“Frequent fliers” are patients with more than four visits to the emergency room in one year. While this group accounts for 4 percent of patients, they account for 25 percent of ER visits. In an effort to better understand these patients, Duke University Emergency Medicine resident Andrew Parker identified five frequent fliers and documented their [...]
Using Documentary to Understand Adolescent Addiction
Half of high school students currently use addictive substances. One in eight high school students have a diagnosable clinical substance use disorder involving nicotine, alcohol or other drugs. Only six to eight percent of the total number of patients in need of treatment receive care. Adolescent and Child Psychiatry Chief Resident Jennifer Segura found herself [...]
Documenting Medicine
Duke University Medical Center and the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke are partnering on an effort to use documentary to explore medical issues. To view work produced by people at Duke, click on projects to the left. To see additional documentary work, click on the categories below.
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Exploring Postpartum Patient Satisfaction Among Spanish-Speaking Mothers: An Audio Documentary
Exploring Postpartum Patient Satisfaction Among Spanish-Speaking Mothers: An Audio Documentary from Liisa Ogburn on Vimeo. Postpartum satisfaction surveys are an important patient-reported indicator of healthcare quality and patient response to such surveys may impact hospital reimbursement in the near future. Identifying barriers to participation is a key element to improving healthcare quality assessment and serving [...]
Work-Related: A Coal Miner’s Story
Work-related: A Coal Miner’s Story from Liisa Ogburn on Vimeo. Work culture and local community economics can significantly influence a worker’s decision to report work-related injuries. However, these factors are not readily visible in the exam room, and too often medical providers assume an over-reporting of injuries under Worker’s Compensation. As a senior resident in [...]
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