April 13, 2010 (Washington, DC) — Patients with congestive heart failure (CHF) have an increased risk for complications from comorbidities, particularly during the hospital discharge process. At ...

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 ...

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 ...

Objective To evaluate the effectiveness of a simple intervention in improving rates of appropriate discharge instruction disbursement and discharge completeness following emergency department ...

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 ...

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 ...