Implicit bias and racism in patient-provider communication are hampering shared decision-making, a new qualitative study in JAMA Network Open reported.
The study, which detailed responses from...
University of Pennsylvania Health System, part of Penn Medicine, takes a step away from US News Hospital Rankings, arguing that these reports fail to use healthcare quality metrics that reflect the...
A new initiative from Stanford Medicine aims to reduce health disparities among LGBTQ people by collecting more information about gender identity and sexual orientation during patient...
Cost might be the most important issue when making patient care access decisions, but factors like convenience and location aren’t far behind, according to the Healthcare Patient Consumer Survey...
Three researchers from UC Riverside think using emojis could enhance patient-provider communication, especially among underrepresented patient populations.
Writing in JAMA Network Open commentary, the...
Nearly one in five trans adults said they’ve been refused care by a healthcare provider, according to a new KFF report, a sign of the everyday discrimination and healthcare access challenges...
Does it matter what an AI chatbot’s avatar looks like? It might, according to researchers from the University of Colorado School of Medicine, who raise questions about patient experience,...
As the healthcare world gradually shifts its focus toward patient-centered care, Vanderbilt's clinician-patient communications tool has achieved a significant milestone, recording its millionth...
Even the highest-performing hospitals see racial health disparities in adverse patient safety events, with a new report from The Leapfrog Group and Urban Institute showing that gaps persist across top-...
A new study out of the UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine found that doctors of osteopathy (DOs) perform just as well as medical doctors (MDs) in various measures of clinical outcomes and patient...
Healthcare organizations aren’t on the same page as patients when it comes to the digital transformation and patient experience. While patients want more technology enabling patient access to...
Patient preferences are at odds with provider perception when it comes to contraceptive choices, identified a new survey, suggesting that healthcare providers might need to amplify their...
A new poll from the American Academy of Physician Associates (AAPA) shows that care coordination has become a second job for many patients, something AAPA experts said is becoming a major pitfall for...
Healthcare providers are already aware of the risk of medical misinformation on social media sites, but a new study from researchers at the University of Arizona College of Medicine showed just how...
A lack of proper patient education is leaving many women in the dark about postpartum depression.
According to a recent survey, 70 percent of postpartum women reported feeling underinformed about...
Healthcare providers looking to deepen meaningful patient-provider communication may consider prompting their patients to ask them questions, a new JAMA Network Open study indicated.
The study, which...
Patient safety events, like hospital-acquired infections, are still too common after hitting a five-year spike during the pandemic, and patient experience scores are taking as a result, according to...
The healthcare industry has a big credibility and patient trust problem on its hands, with new data from Edelman showing that 34 percent of people think any average layperson could know just as much as...
ChatGPT is an effective solution for online medical search for patients, with the artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot accurately answering patient queries around 88 percent of the time, according to a...
A new HHS Office of the Inspector General (OIG) report is putting CMS on blast for not accurately reporting on nursing home issues on the agency’s Care Compare sites, which healthcare consumers...
