Cancer patients can teach us a lot about how to stay safe during the pandemic. Because they are immunocompromised, they have to be extra careful to avoid people who are sick.

Among patients with diabetes, the teach-back method was associated with better interactions with health care providers, more engagement in shared decision-making and a greater likelihood of ...

Nova pays professional patients – also known as standardized patients — $20 an hour to teach general exams. But those doing the more specialized male and female exam are paid $35 per student.

Teaching patients with diabetes strategies to take control of their own care works, and should be covered by insurance, MetroHealth researchers say.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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