Having patients teach-back discharge information may help reduce their risk of readmission, according to a study in American Nurse Today. Researchers held hour-long teach-back sessions with high ...

The virtual patients Mr. Segal has created will greet students at Central Florida’s College of Medicine next fall, when it welcomes its first class.

Patients endure good outcomes because the apprentice-like structure ensures that many eyes are on them, their test results, medication dosages and so forth. The blend of students from nursing to ...

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 ...

Boston-based Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center researchers found that the presence of academic medical centers were linked to better outcomes for patients treated at nearby community hospitals.

To investigate of the perspectives of ophthalmology patients involved in clinical teaching. In all, 26 patients attending a revision course for postgraduate Membership of the Royal College of ...

Hospitals are learning how to enhance the patient experience from the creative minds behind the "happiest place on earth" and other customer- and experience-focused enterprises.

Despite widespread recognition that positive physician-patient interactions are beneficial to the treatment of disease, medical students and residents still receive little efffective training in ...

In New Jersey, a group of business and labor leaders-along with the state's largest health plan-decided it was time for the term "patient-centered" to be understood by a key constituency: patients ...

Unfortunately for Charles, what he did not know about his patient was that David was a concert pianist before the war and the saving of his leg meant very little to him while at the same time the ...