A poster that was presented in the Eighth University Research Day at the Catholic University of America in 2023. Background: The emergency department (ED), a unique and constantly evolving setting, ...

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 ...

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 ...

To submit a legal/professional nursing question for future consideration, write to the editor at syox@medscape.net (Include "Ask the Expert" in subject line.) A nurse has questions about the ...

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 ...

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 ...