Patient Education

BOSTON – At Hematology/Oncology Pharmacy Association Annual Meeting, Loriel J. Solodokin, PharmD, BCOP, encouraged pharmacists and clinicians to get involved and learn more about what the association has to offer.

In the 1960s, if you were lucky enough to be approved for dialysis by your regional patient selection committee, home care was the one – and only – choice.

NEW ORLEANS — Using Dextenza as a postoperative steroid treatment after cataract surgery saved practices about 40 staff hours per week on patient education and callbacks, according to a survey.

December 2020 saw CMS finalize a proposal to eliminate the inpatient only list in a 3-year transitional period, which allowed about 300 primarily musculoskeletal-related services to be performed in the hospital outpatient setting.

Among high-risk patients, discussion of do-not-resuscitate orders should take place prior to hospitalization, as only 10% of patients possessed the autonomy to do so after admission for severe COVID-19, a speaker reported.

WAILEA, Hawaii — In this video from Hawaiian Eye 2021, John A. Hovanesian, MD, FACS, discusses the importance of educating patients on the possibilities associated with premium lens implants.

Since the beginning of stent use, patients have received a “stent card” after PCI with information about their stent, but a study presented at the American College of Cardiology Scientific Session suggests it is not very useful.

More patients underwent hepatitis C virus screening when there was a reduced effort in attaining a laboratory order compared with patients who had to request screening on their own, according to research published in BMJ.

Presentations focused on educating patients about their kidney failure options required better practices to improve content gaps, health literacy and patient communication with nephrologists, according to a study.

Web-based patient education effectively decreased the need for upper gastrointestinal tract endoscopy in patients with uninvestigated dyspepsia, according to a study in JAMA Internal Medicine.