The Swiss Health Literacy Survey: development and psychometric properties of a multidimensional instrument to assess competencies for health Background Growing recognition of the role of citizens and patients in health and health care has placed a spotlight on health literacy and patient educat... J ...
Our objective was to measure the time required to administer the Newest Vital Sign (NVS) literacy assessment instrument to English-speaking primary care patients. METHODS: The NVS was administered to 78 consecutive English-speaking patients in an outpatient primary care clinic. The length of time ...
At the Intelligent Health summit in Switzerland, Tencent Healthcare discussed an increasingly important way forward: digital innovation and AI. Deployed properly, it can lead to better health information, literacy, and access to services, especially for disadvantaged communities, while decreasing inefficien...
As mentioned, today’s patients approach healthcare with the same expectations for convenience, accessibility, and personalization they experience in other aspects of their lives. It’s a highly sensitive space—they need their healthcare provider to understand and respond to their individual needs, p...
A study was carried out in which patients were asked questions to assess their knowledge of their condition and treatment, the questions relating particularly to care before siting an intravenous infusion and preoperative care. A high proportion of patients knew little about the procedure they were ...
We carried out semi-structured interviews with patients (n = 13) and site staff (n = 11), and surveyed 180 patients and 68 site staff who were part of the Show RESPECT study, which tested approaches to sharing results with participants in the context of the ICON8 ovarian cancer...
Physiotherapy is effective to reduce pain and improve the quality of life of people living with chronic pain. To offer high-quality physiotherapy services, these services must be patient-centred and respond to patients’ needs. However, few studies seem
Low digital health literacy can carry with it several consequences. Primarily, it can deepen health inequities in an increasingly digitized healthcare landscape. Patients who do not know how to use digital health tools, don’t see the importance of those tools, or can’t access those ...
Health researchers and policymakers can use this information to observe the course of the condition, understand variations in treatment outcomes, and assess effectiveness across and within populations. The Forum and MHI analysis found that many countries lack condition-specific patient...
health literacyoutpatient clinicsdischargeBackground: Patients attending General Medicine Outpatient Clinics (GM OPCs) at hospital face multiple healthcare demands in an environment that has evolved with the clinician at its centre. The ideas, knowledge and understanding that patients bring to their ...