Health Literacy Month is once again taking over October here at Engaging the Patient. The nation’s leading literacy experts are on-board with the latest insights on topics like the Universal Precautions Toolkit and the National Action Plan to Improve Health Literacy. Last year’s blog series was extremely popular, and we’re pleased to build on that [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Education’
Health Literacy Month Is Back – Tell a Friend
Posted in Emmi Solutions, Health Literacy, Patient Communication, Patient Education, patient engagement, patient experience, Patient Safety, tagged Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Education, health, Literacy on September 29, 2011 |
Do Visual Learners Really Exist?
Posted in Patient Communication, Patient Education, patient engagement, Research, tagged Communication, Education, Evidence-based medicine, learning style, NPR, Patient Education, patient engagement on September 7, 2011 |
NPR – Are you a visual learner? Do you prefer your lessons in writing? For years, the notion of learning styles has driven behavior in a variety of industries. Now, there is a team of psychologists ready to challenge the accepted beliefs about human learning. After reviewing studies of learning styles, several psychologists concluded that [...]
Report: Hospital Self-Reporting Misses 90% of Adverse Events
Posted in Clinical Outcomes, Events, Evidence-Based Medicine, Patient Safety, Reducing Readmissions, Research, tagged Education, Incentives, Medicine, Patient Safety on April 11, 2011 |
Health Affairs–In comparing three adverse event detection methods from three leading hospitals, a study done by University of Utah researchers and colleagues found that the most used detection methods – including hospitals’ self-reporting systems – missed nearly 90 percent of adverse events. That total is 10 times higher than the Agency for Healthcare Research and [...]
Health Literacy and Beyond
Posted in Health Literacy, Patient Communication, Patient Education, patient engagement, patient experience, Patient Safety, Satisfaction, tagged Communication, Education, health, Health care, Health literacy, Patient, Patient Education, patient engagement, Patient Experience, Patient Flow, United States on November 2, 2010 |
First, thanks to the contributors and the readers for making this series a huge success. Clearly, our understanding of health literacy is in its infancy and there are many ways to start attacking it. But despite the diversity of topics and approaches that were discussed, a few themes emerged. It’s essential to meet people where [...]
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Posted in Disease Management, Emmi Solutions, Financial Outcomes, Health Literacy, patient engagement, patient experience, Patient Safety, Satisfaction, tagged Disease Management, Education, Health care, Health literacy, Medicine, patient engagement, Shared Decision-Making on October 29, 2010 |
On vacation in October? Busy carving an endless array of pumpkins? Don’t worry. Engaging the Patient has the whole Health Literacy Month boiled down to two paragraphs (and a picture). Next week, Geri Lynn Baumblatt, podcast host, Editorial Director, and our resident health literacy expert, will provide her take on the contributions of our guest [...]
Changing Your Communication Climate
Posted in Patient Communication, Patient Education, patient engagement, patient experience, Patient Safety, tagged Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, American Medical Association, Communication, Education, Health care, Health literacy, Hospitals, informed patient, Joint Commission, Literacy, Medicine, Patient, patient engagement, Patient Experience on October 25, 2010 |
Effective communication is one of the most important elements in achieving quality care. As readers of this blog know well, one key aspect of communication is understanding and responding to a patient’s level of understanding, or health literacy. In recent work, we found that a patient’s perception of the overall communication climate in a hospital [...]
Thoughts on the Economic Impact of Health Literacy
Posted in patient engagement, tagged Adam Kaufman, Chronic Condition Management, Disease Management, Education, health, Health care, Literacy, Patient Education, patient engagement, Public health on October 21, 2010 |
A recent survey concludes that on a “health system level, the additional costs of limited health literacy range from 3% to 5% of total health care cost per year.” Even at the low end of the range that implies costs of limited health literacy in the US alone of more than $65 billion USD per [...]
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