Andrew Yee, MD, introduces the discussion by reviewing treatment challenges, patient education, and decision-making in ...

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 ...

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 ...

Receipt of educational leaflet also reduces misperception of asymptomatic bacteriuria as urinary tract infection.

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 ...

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 ...

The evidence suggests that optimal strategies include those that are patient-centered and tailored to individual needs, are embedded within health professional–patient communication and therapeutic ...

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 ...