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It is vital for patients to receive complete information at discharge.
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Health care institutions may be able to borrow an idea from literacy volunteer organizations to improve health literacy among individuals who have low literacy skills and improve their ability to navigate the health care system.
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Clinicians often fail to identify patients who need home care services or other post-acute care after they're discharged from the hospital, research shows.
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When a UPS manager had an onsite blood pressure screening, his blood pressure was so high that an occupational health nurse took him to the hospital immediately. He was diagnosed with a heart attack, and he survived with minimal damage because he was treated so quickly.
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A risk manager at your company asks you to report what an injured employee on workers' compensation tells you about their physical activities, because this employee is suspected of malingering. What will your answer be?
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A diabetic employee lost 20 pounds after two months, and his blood glucose levels dropped to the normal range.
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Have you stockpiled enough antiviral medication to provide doses for several hundred (or thousand) employees for about 80 days? Does your stockpile include more than one antiviral medication? Can you rotate it so it never expires?
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A Kansas State University researcher has found a link between physical and mental well-being that employees and employers might be able to capitalize on to improve the health, and potentially the wealth, of their organization.
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Mailed reminders to patients appear to promote colon cancer screening, according to a report in the Feb. 23 issue of Archives of Internal Medicine, one of the JAMA/Archives journals. In addition, electronic reminders to physicians appear to increase screening among patients with more frequent primary care visits.
