The workshop’s first panel, featuring three speakers, provided background information that would inform the subsequent two panels and the discussions that followed. Joshua Seidman, an independent ...

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(HealthDay News) — Using discharge instructions that employ pictures and symbols rather than words can improve hospital discharge medication compliance in illiterate patients, according to a study ...

Objective To evaluate the effectiveness of a simple intervention in improving rates of appropriate discharge instruction disbursement and discharge completeness following emergency department ...

A reduction in hospital readmissions may improve quality and reduce costs. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has initiated a national effort to measure and publicly report on the conduct ...

How many people, upon leaving the hospital, forget everything they were told by a doctor or nurse? That key moment when the patient should be listening to post-discharge instructions is one of the ...

Gaynor Allen, RGN, is senior sister, emergency admissions ward; Diane O'Brien, RGN, EN, ONC, is senior sister, emergency admissions ward; all at Heart of England NHS ...

As King Charles and Princess of Wales Kate Middleton undergo cancer treatment, no doubt they each have a team of physicians and employees paying careful attention to every instruction their care team ...

DES PLAINES, IL -- Video discharge instructions in the emergency department are associated with less perceived acute otitis media (AOM) symptomatology compared to a paper handout. That is the finding ...

The workshop’s second panel was structured with one presentation and three reactions to that presentation. In the main presentation, Mark Williams, director of the Center for Health Services Research ...