Patients’ Memory for Medical Information

Patients' memory for medical information.

When important decisions are to be made, the patient must receive detailed information on the illness, treatment options and prognosis. The shortening of hospital stays and the trend towards outpatient care enhance the need of patients and their families for specific information.1 Practitioners are responding to these demands, yet the amount of information correctly recalled by patients is stri...

Recall in older cancer patients: measuring memory for medical information.

PURPOSE Remembering medical treatment information may be particularly taxing for older cancer patients, but to our knowledge this ability has never been assessed in this specific age group only. Our purpose in this study was to investigate older cancer patients' recall of information after patient education preceding chemotherapy. DESIGN AND METHODS We constructed a recall questionnaire consi...

Web-based Information for Medical Tourism: Case Study of AriaMedTour Medical Tourism Company, Iran

Objective: As one of the well-known countries for medical tourism, Iran has the potential for growth in this industry and requires information and advertisements in online media and websites. This study aims to investigate the effectiveness of the content produced by the website of AriaMedTour Medical Tourism Company in informing tourists. Methods: This is an applied study that adopted an indu...

Memory for multidimensional source information.

Source memory may comprise recollection of multiple features of the encoding episode. To analyze the simultaneous representation and retrieval of those multiple features, a multinomial memory model is presented that measures memory for crossed dimensions of source information. The first experiment investigated the validity of the new model. The model showed an excellent statistical fit to empir...

Medical Information for Social Workers