Emergency Department (ED) discharge instructions play a pivotal role in ensuring that patients understand their diagnosis, treatment plan, and necessary follow-up care. Comprehensive patient education ...

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 ...

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

(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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

For translating pediatric discharge instructions, Google Translate and ChatGPT were largely on par with professional translations for Spanish and Brazilian Portuguese, but didn't do so well with ...

NOTICE: The workshop that is the subject of this workshop summary was approved by the Governing Board of the National Research Council, whose members are drawn from the councils of the National ...