You’ve got a post-acute patient getting ready to return to the community. You feel you are prepared. After all, you have created written discharge instructions for most common post-acute admission ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

ASC Durango (Colo.) recently underwent its first AAAHC survey and achieved accreditation. As a result of the survey, the ASC has identified areas to target for improvement. One such area was education ...

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 ...

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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 ...