Giving control to patients

Giving control to patients.

Giving Your Cell Phone Number to Patients

Section Editor: Mark I. Langdorf, MD, MHPE Submission history: Submitted March 15, 2016; Accepted April 8, 2016 Electronically published June 13, 2016 Full text available through open access at http://escholarship.org/uc/uciem_westjem DOI: 10.5811/westjem.2016.4.30359 [West J Emerg Med. 2016;17(4):477.] University of Tennessee Medical Units at Memphis, Department of Emergency Medicine, Memphis,...

Perspectives on Multimedia Synchronization: Giving Control to Authors

The prevailing definition of “multimedia synchronization” pegs it as a network and operating system level issue that deals with how to deliver streams of multimedia data in a way that maintains a specific set of temporal relationships. A typical example of a multimedia synchronization problem is ensuring that video and audio streams are delivered to an application in a way that maintains lip sy...

Giving patients timely, accurate pricing.

Giving honest information to patients with advanced cancer maintains hope.

BACKGROUND Oncologists often do not give honest prognostic and treatment-effect information to patients with advanced disease. One of the primary reasons stated for witholding this information is to "not take away hope." We could find no study that tested if hope was influenced by honest clinical information. METHODS We tested decision-aids in 27 patients with advanced cancer who were facing ...