Expert discusses how health care teams must empower patients through ongoing dialogue, emphasizing shared decision-making and ...

Accurate diagnosis, patient education, and collaborative decision making between patients and providers empowers patients with irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) to take their health into their own hands ...

When we talk about "patient engagement" in research, it can sound like a slogan on a grant application rather than something ...

Being a physician in the role of a patient’s family member can be a particularly challenging experience. You know too much. So, when you are seated in the designated family waiting area while your ...

Clinicians have long struggled with patient education. Often, materials are simplified to at or below a fifth-grade reading level in an effort to ensure accessibility. Ironically, this approach can ...

Teaching patients how to access a patient portal and its role in their post-discharge care increases engagement during and after hospitalization. It also improves patient experience, a new JAMIA study ...

It’s a family’s nightmare: a car accident. It happened to one pediatrician and his child. The pediatrician was okay, but his young daughter complained that her head hurt, so they went to the ER. While ...

Hospitals where doctors receive training are generally thought of as the most advanced type of hospital. So, for the patient, is it best to be admitted to a 'teaching hospital'? A review of the ...

A recent study found that patients who had cataract surgery were satisfied overall with discharge teaching quality, were well prepared for discharge, and had good postdischarge outcomes. Patients who ...

The 45-year-old patient, Sally Artesaros, sat on the exam table, her body hunched in pain with her palm cradling the right side of her temple. "It's sharp and it's pounding," she said of the migraine ...

Patients with a high risk of dying after surgery, including those with multiple chronic diseases, benefit from undergoing general or vascular procedures at a major teaching hospital as opposed to a ...