Exit talks have minor effects on injured drinkers.(interview of...

Clinical Psychiatry News;  February 1, 2006 ;     572 words ......drinking than providing simple discharge instructions, according to the results of a...247 patients who received only discharge instructions (from 12.6 to 9.2). Similar reductions...in the BNI (from 5.9 to 3.1) and discharge instructions groups (from 5.5 to 3.4), Dr. D'Onofr...

Discharge Instruction System: A Software Package for Computer-Generated...

American Family Physician;  May 1, 1992 ;     357 words ......generates personalized patient discharge instructions useful for the physician's office...criteria included in the patient discharge instructions, this program has an easy-to-follow...accompanied by a handy help screen. The discharge instructions included with the program cover...

Patient complains about doctor's comments She says she was told: 'Do not...

Rocky Mountain News (2007-Current);  May 25, 2007 ;     416 words ......Health Medical Center doctor issued discharge instructions telling her to not "get drunk and...Yadavinder Sooch of issuing "outrageous discharge instructions" and said the hospital provided...the cut on her head and in his discharge instructions, prescribed Tylenol, facts verified...

Caregivers: Take care of yourself, too

Capital (Annapolis);  October 12, 2008 ;     587 words ......my mother had signed off on the discharge instructions that she had understood them. Mary...member to be present to hear the discharge instructions? Now I have to track someone down...directed." I questioned him about his discharge instructions and he said he was so excited to...

Patient complains about doctor's comments She says she was told: 'Do not...

Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO);  May 25, 2007 ;     423 words ......Health Medical Center doctor issued discharge instructions telling her to not get drunk and...Yadavinder Sooch of issuing outrageous discharge instructions and said the hospital provided...the cut on her head and in his discharge instructions, prescribed Tylenol, facts verified...

Caregiver wellness is important

Capital (Annapolis);  September 28, 2008 ;     585 words ......my mother had signed off on the discharge instructions that she had understood them. Mary...member to be present to hear the discharge instructions? Now I have to track someone down...directed. I questioned him about his discharge instructions and he said he was so excited to...

Discharge instructions after head injury in young athletes. (adapted from...

American Family Physician;  August 1, 1995 ;     571 words ......the appropriateness of care and discharge instructions in young athletes who were hospitalized...head injury was graded, and the discharge instructions were compared with guidelines on...results of all studies were normal. Discharge instructions were determined to be adequate...

Case Study: Diagnoses and Interventions With Low Literacy.

Nursing Diagnosis;  January 1, 1999 ;     700+ words ......Jones received verbal and written discharge instructions about how to follow up the treatments...between Mr. Jones's behavior and his discharge instructions. Through an analysis of data, it...they were written down and the discharge instructions were visible on the table. He also...

Head trauma discharge instructions. (Letters to the Editor).(Letter to the...

Southern Medical Journal;  March 1, 2003 ;     700+ words ......standard exists for head injury discharge instructions, and few authors have questioned...written in medical language. In all discharge instructions, but particularly those for head...should be given to the written discharge instructions. Many of the parameters outlined...

Griffin gets $50G for discharge care study

New Haven Register;  February 20, 2007 ;     297 words ......educational intervention to improve discharge instructions for congestive heart failure patients...nurse will analyze ways to improve discharge instructions. Wild said this is the first grant...and care improvement. "Tailoring discharge instructions so patients can actually ...

HLI and ExitCare Team to Improve and Automate Patient Education and...

Health & Beauty Close-Up;  October 9, 2008 ;     393 words ......ExitCare Team to Improve and Automate Patient Education and Discharge Instructions(C)2008 - CloseUpMedia - newsdesk@closeupmedia.com Health...immediate, accurate and comprehensive patient education and discharge instructions. According to a release, HLI, a supplier of language...

Maine hospitals given good marks in survey

Bangor Daily News Bangor, ME;  June 26, 2007 ;     700+ words ......71 percent of patients received discharge instructions as they left the hospital - better...heart failure patients receiving discharge instructions, but only 57 percent of patients...themselves at home. Krause said discharge instructions are problematic with all chronic...

Doctors' Orders Lost in Translation

US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  July 15, 2008 ;     516 words ......not fully understand the care and discharge instructions they receive in the emergency department...Medicine. "Patients who fail to follow discharge instructions may have a greater likelihood of...and perhaps most important, their discharge instructions," said Engel, who also is a ...

Paterson hospital wins heart care rating

The Record (Bergen County, NJ);  January 25, 2006 ;     456 words ......medications upon hospital arrival and the provision of proper discharge instructions. The AHA supplies medical facilities with an electronic...program also serves as a self-check system when providing discharge instructions on subjects such as smoking cessation and dietary restrictions...

Literacy in the health care system: A study open heart surgery patients

Journal of the American Academy of Nurse Practitioners;  January 1, 2002 ;     700+ words ......understand written discharge instructions and further to analyze...difficulty of standard discharge instructions and consent forms for...questions based on the discharge instructions. Flesch-Kincaid scores...