‘Please don't call me Mister’: patient preferences of how they are addressed and their knowledge of their treating medical team in an Australian hospital (January 2016)

Summary

This paper from Parsons et al. looked at how patients prefer to be addressed by their healthcare providers and assessed their knowledge of their attending medical team's identity. The researchers conducted a survey which included 300 inpatients, with findings showing over 99% of patients prefer informal address and 57% of patients unable to correctly name a single member of their attending medical team.