The disconnect between patients' understanding of disease and their satisfaction with physicians is particularly pronounced for care at the end of life.
Patients' understanding and awareness of information received conflicted with the HPs' perceptions of patients' understanding and awareness of the information that had been given.
HPs need to repeatedly check patients' understanding and preferences for information.
Table 2 shows a more detailed description of patients' understanding of their diagnosis, treatment, follow-up, and return to the emergency department instructions.
Many of the studies evaluating interventions to improve patients' understanding of discharge instructions rely on increased use of technology, for example, online videos and text messaging [14 17].
The cognitive debriefing interviews did not reveal any problems with patients' understanding of items or instructions, and confirmed the appropriateness of the recall period and response options.
His report on the experiment, published by the BMJ this week, describes an approximate 20% increase in illiterate patients' understanding when using the new form.
The effect of Feedback Care and Evaluation (FACE™) cards on patients' ability to correctly identify their inpatient physicians and on patients understanding of physicians roles was assessed.
To determine the effectiveness of verbal, written, and videotaped descriptions of cataract surgery on patients' understanding of the risks, benefits, and treatment alternatives.
As neurodegeneration in MS correlates with permanent neurological deficits in patients, understanding the mechanisms would be an important pre-condition for designing appropriate neuroprotective therapies.
Do you think there's an expanded role for nurses or other non-doctors to play in improving patients' understanding of their own health, given the constraints on the amount of time doctors can spend with them?
