10 Steps to Maximizing Patient Loyalty: How to Effectively Use Real-time Patient Feedback to Effect Positive Change within a Physician Group Practice
To save you having to read a long introduction to this article, below is the short, bulleted list regarding how to use real-time patient feedback to effect positive change within your physician group practice.Following the list you will find real-world, physician practice applications for each step.
- Enlist the support of physicians and other leadership
- Ask patients about their care experience using a systematic method
- Gather and process patient feedback continuously
- ACT on patient feedback straightaway when appropriate
- Pass along patient compliments soon after the patient’s visit
- Coach & counsel (when needed) soon after the patient’s visit
- Provide physicians with practice-unique results & data comparisons
- Analyze patient feedback to identify improvement opportunities
- Collaborate with key decision makers -- create viable action-plans
- Execute action-plans - Measure, Monitor, and Modify as needed
Below are some of our findings and other real-world experiences.
- Enlist the support of participating physicians and other leadership


