No news is bad news: patients' views about communication in hospital.

No news is bad news: patients' views about communication in hospital.

One hundred patients on four general surgical wards in a large teaching hospital were interviewed about the information they had received about their illness and what they had been told about the investigations they had undergone. Fifty-five of them expressed some dissatisfaction and 14 were strongly dissatisfied. The way in which ward rounds were conducted was heavily criticised, but most pati...

Abstract 21. When No News is Bad News: Improving Diagnostic Testing Communication through Patient Engagement

PURPOSE: Carpal tunnel syndrome is a common cause of upper extremity discomfort. Surgical release of the median nerve can be performed under general or local anesthetic, with or without a tourniquet. Wide-awake carpal tunnel release (CTR) (local anesthesia, no sedation) is gaining popularity. Tourniquet discomfort is a reported downside. This study reviews outcomes in wide-awake CTR and compare...

No news , bad news ! A Personalized News Recommendation System

The development of the internet has drastically changed the newspaper industry, and the way people read news stories [3]. Newspapers are shifting from print to online version, with some unexpected results [1, 2, 6]. Good news for the newspaper industry? The proliferation of news aggregators such as Google News1 is blamed for killing the “old media”. With these aggregators, people visit a newspa...

No News is Good News (or at least Most News is Bad News): Asymmetric Responses to Economic Information

There is a considerable body of work suggesting that economic news has significant political and economic implications. Most work in political science assumes that responses to this news are symmetrical, however; indeed, this work also assumes that responses to the economy itself are symmetrical. This is most likely not true. There is, rather, reason to believe that negative economic informatio...

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