Patients' lives are being put at risk by poor communication from health care professionals in hospitals worldwide, according ...

In the US, communication failures contribute to over 60% of all hospital-based adverse events. Experts believe these figures ...

Effective discharge planning and communication between hospitalists and outpatient providers are crucial for ensuring ...

A woman and her child are seen at the dedicated section for paediatric and maternity ward of a cholera treatment center, in ...

If you feel your doctor isn’t listening to you or answering questions, speak up. Your concerns are valid, even if they are ...

Some of this information is unique to a person (for example, local patient identifier), while postcode cannot uniquely identify a person, but all data is stored and processed with the same robust ...

This will mean engaging the patient in their own healthcare planning at a much earlier stage than has traditionally been seen (for example, during clinical trial design or as patient advocates and ...

For example, Siravegna et al. (45) explored clonal evolution in colorectal cancer patients undergoing treatment, demonstrating that resistant subpopulations emerge under therapeutic pressure, ...

One strategy is simple self-reflection by the physician.7 For example, patients with mood disorders sometimes elicit urges in the physician to depart the clinical encounter, and recognising this ...

A new report for the Patent Safety Commissioner explored the challenges faced by people with sensory impairment.