The Nebraska Hospital Association offers a free, downloadable patient instruction form to help patients better manage their health post-discharge. The hospital association obtained the forms from the ...

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 ...

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 ...

Concerned about how many of your patients end up readmitted to the hospital? Difficult-to-understand discharge instructions may be a top area to examine. A recent study published in the American ...

Getting out of the hospital is good. Having to return a week or a month later? Not so much. With all of the attention ...

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 ...

A recent Medscape article hit home with many nurses. The article described a study that showed that only one fourth of patients understood their discharge instructions because they were tailored to ...

(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 ...

Chronic Kidney Disease can (CKD) happen because of many things. These include infections, diabetes, high blood pressure, kidney stones, circulation problems, and reactions to medicine. Having kidney ...

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 ...