In this pilot study, primary care providers refer patients to a telephone counselor who provides education about colorectal cancer screening and performs motivational interviewing as needed to promote ...

Am J Health Syst Pharm. 2005;62(4):364-365. A recent report from the Institute of Medicine indicates that the health literacy of the average American is low and that health care professionals use too ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Patient education and counseling may reduce opioid consumption after ACL surgery. Patients instructed to take ...

How well are doctors doing in advising patients to eat better and exercise? It can depend on the physician's own personal habits, according to a new study. Factors that predicted confidence in ...

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recently released new guidance on counseling patients who may be prescribed or are currently taking drugs with a Risk Evaluation and Mitigation Strategy, or ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Objectives—To determine rates of patient reported and physician documented counselling; to identify predictors of each report; and to identify ...

The recently instituted 30-hour-shift "work restrictions" placed on medical residents have created a need for "dayfloat" services to safeguard potentially unsafe handoffs in patient care and help ...

In recent years, online counselling has been introduced in clinical genetics to increase patients’ access to care and to reduce time and cost for both patients and professionals. Most telegenetics ...

With the introduction of next-generation sequencing (NGS) in everyday clinical genetics practise, the number of genetic disorders that can be confirmed at DNA-level increases. This leads to a greater ...