LAS VEGAS – Language barriers remain a persistent challenge in healthcare, often leading to misunderstandings in discharge instructions that can increase medical risk and contribute to avoidable ...

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 ...

Dr C was determined to fight this case, and his defense attorney was supportive after looking at the detailed notes and documented calls to the patient which were never returned. In today’s healthcare ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

In a recent study published in JAMA Network Open, researchers investigated whether large language models (LLMs) might improve the understandability and readability of hospital discharge summaries.

The National Patient Safety Foundation offers resources to help ensure the safety of patients at all points of care. The Post-Discharge Tool is a four-page document designed for patient use. The tool ...

A novel natural language processing pipeline (NLP) may be able to help expedite the time-consuming process of gleaning this information from summaries. Researchers have developed a rule-based natural ...

Discharge instructions offered to patients are often generic and ambiguous. One way to improve outcomes and communication with patients is to provide them with more personalized checklists before they ...

Changes in the way Medicare pays health care providers have created a strong inducement for hospitals and health systems to get patients involved in their own care. But, unless patients make a real ...

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 ...