Delivering Patient Data to Patients Themselves

Helping your patients to help themselves.

Delivering bad news to patients.

When physicians lack proper training, breaking bad news can lead to negative consequences for patients, families, and physicians. A questionnaire was used to determine whether a didactic program on delivering bad news was needed at our institution. Results revealed that 91% of respondents perceived delivering bad news as a very important skill, but only 40% felt they had the training to effecti...

Employing Query Expansion Models to help Patients Diagnose Themselves

In the paper we use two query expansion models, Kullback-Liebler Divergence(KLD) model and parameter-free Bose-Einstein statistics-based (Bo1) model, to improve effectiveness of information retrieval systems and help lay people search relevant medical information for diagnosing themselves. Compared with Baseline BM25, the results of Bo1 models with 3 feedback documents are better than baseline ...

Do the Psychiatric Patients Reject Themselves?

Five statements measuring social distance from and prejudice against the ex-mentally ill were read to 137 psychiatric patients and relatives from urban background. Their agreement and disagreement with the five statements was analysed and compared with controls from an orthopaedic clinic.Maximum social distance was found on statements about establishing marital relationship with an ex-mental pa...

Heavy menstrual bleeding: delivering patient-centred care.