A couple of months ago, a new patient came to our practice with the chief complaint of, "There's something coming out of my ...

Researchers called for standardized health outcome descriptors to help bridge communication gaps in rheumatology care and ...

Imagine getting an MRI of your knees and being told you have "mild intrasubstance degeneration of the posterior horn of the ...

Patient education involves the transfer of health-related knowledge from various healthcare sources to the ... and other reading materials are common information resources. Family and friends ...

That’s why Transplants.org turned to Carnegie Mellon University Trustees Professor of Management Science and Healthcare Informatics Rema Padman (opens in new window) and a team of Heinz College of ...

Wolff-Holz emphasizes the importance of patient education at the pharmacy, especially if a biosimilar involves a different administration device compared with the originator drug. She explains how ...

Patients often trust they are getting personalized advice from their health care providers, yet that is not always the case, a new consumer handout sheet warns. “Hospitals and health systems are ...

Patients can find them by going to CCHF’s website, cchfreedom.org, and clicking on “Helpful Handouts.” The handout on doctors’ independence suggests questions patients might not otherwise think to ask ...

Leveraging Large Language Models to Improve Readability of Online Patient Education Materials: Cross-sectional Study (Preprint). Journal of Medical Internet Research , 2024; DOI: 10.2196/69955 ...

Keywords: diabetes, diabetic kidney disease, artificial intelligence, large language models, patient education. Citation: Cheng M, Zhang Q, Liang H, Wang Y, Qin J, Gong L, Wang S, Li L and Xiao X ...

Patients with CKD who received an education handout before a nephrology visit had a 19 percentage point increase in knowledge post-visit. Results were similar for patients with inadequate health ...

Jessie Desir, PhD, RN, AMB-BC, OCN, explained that comprehensive disease and treatment education are essential to adherence for patients with breast cancer. Keeping patients informed and educated is ...