Better resident preparation and communication during the discharge process is the key for skilled nursing facilities hoping to reduce hospital readmissions and produce better outcomes, new study ...
Patient and family education is one of those problematic standards and requirements for improvement that boggles the mind of many hospital survey coordinators. In the course of patient care, every ...
About 93% of U.S. adults access the internet, and 80% of those search for health information, despite low levels of ...
A patient typically leaves the hospital or clinic with a patient education package that has been vetted by department heads, checked and sanitized by the legal department, trimmed and restricted by ...
Continuous glucose monitoring can be successfully initiated during hospitalization with training for hospital staff, robust ...
Clinicians have long struggled with patient education. Often, materials are simplified to at or below a fifth-grade reading level in an effort to ensure accessibility. Ironically, this approach can ...
Dr, Mary Klotman, dean of the School of Medicine, has a conversation with Dr. Aditee Narayan, the school’s new vice dean for ...
Teaching patients how to access a patient portal and its role in their post-discharge care increases engagement during and after hospitalization. It also improves patient experience, a new JAMIA study ...
The initial treatment for all testicular cancer is the radical inguinal orchiectomy. After this surgery, stage 1 patients have three main approaches for managing the low risk of recurrence. The best ...
An informed consent law in Michigan would ensure that patient wellbeing remains the focus of medical practices, even when ...