Communication breakdown among nurses and doctors is one of the primary reasons for patient care mistakes in the hospital. And since care quality is increasingly linked to reimbursement, those mistakes ...
A computer analysis of hundreds of thousands of secure email messages between doctors and patients found that most doctors use language that is too complex for their patients to understand. The study ...
Dean Schillinger received funding from NIH/National Library of Medicine grant R01LM012355 and NIH/NIDDK grant 2P30-DK092924 Nicholas Duran receives funding from the National Science Foundation (NSF ...