“Get the photo on a set of cards, like holiday cards and send them out to every single office and person that brushed you off ...

Several health care workers were injured and one remains off the job after a violent encounter with a patient in the ...

The widespread use of electronic patient portals to provide quick access to test results presents health care professionals with an important challenge: How should new cancer diagnoses be communicated ...

There are numerous calls for building health care delivery systems that are more patient centered. The focus on patient-centered care has increasingly begun to rely upon, and even merge with, the ...

Despite progress on patient safety since the publication of the Institute of Medicine’s 1999 report, To Err Is Human, significant problems remain. Human factors and systems engineering (HF/SE) has ...

With the digital era at its peak, everything has become faster, simpler, and more convenient. Nowadays, when we’re feeling hungry, we don’t have to go through the painstaking process of preparing ...

This is the first in a series of articles that focuses on your rights as a patient—both inside the hospital and out. First up, we explore the “Patient’s Bill of Rights” (yes, that’s a thing!). If ...

Patient centered care (PCC) and interprofessional collaboration (IPC) remain important goals for all healthcare systems. While these tenets are a cornerstone of training for nursing and allied health ...