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 ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. -- A 40-year-old woman in good health falls and hits her head while visiting her roommate at her workplace. After a trip to the emergency department, her roommate takes her home with ...

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 ...

During discharge from a hospital, patients are typically focused on leaving and going home or to another site of care; they often are not emotionally prepared to comprehend detailed discharge ...

Researchers at The Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto and Children’s Hospital Boston found patients and their families often have a poor understanding of discharge instructions after leaving the ...

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 ...

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 ...

Objective To describe discharge instructions given to school-aged patients evaluated in a children's emergency department (ED) following concussion. Design Retrospective cohort. Setting Dedicated ...

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 ...

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 of a study ...