Facilitating patient understanding of discharge instructions : workshop summary / Joe Alper and Lyla M. Hernandez, rapporteurs ; Roundtable on Health Literacy, Board on Population Health and Public Health Practice, Institute of Medicine of the National Academies.

The Roundtable on Health Literacy brings together leaders from academia, industry, government, foundations, and associations and representatives of patient and consumer interests who work to improve health literacy. To achieve its mission, the roundtable discusses challenges facing health literacy p...

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محفوظ في:
التفاصيل البيبلوغرافية
المؤلفون الرئيسيون: Alper, Joe (مؤلف), Hernandez, Lyla M. (مؤلف)
مؤلف مشترك: Discharge Instructions and After-Visit Summaries (Workshop)
التنسيق: كتاب الكتروني
اللغة:English
منشور في: Washington, D.C. : National Academies Press, [2014]
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الوصول للمادة أونلاين:Click for online access
جدول المحتويات:
  • Overview of Issues Involved in Creating Better Discharge Instructions
  • Inpatient Discharge Summaries
  • Outpatient After-Visit Summaries
  • Approaches to Developing Improved Discharge Instructions
  • Reflections on the Workshop
  • Appendix A: Workshop Agenda
  • Appendix B: Biographical Sketches of Workshop Speakers.