Effective communication is essential for understanding and recall of hospital discharge information. This study aimed to explore information, patient involvement in encounters. We conducted an explorative observational at a secondary care level, ward. Patients discharged their home were asked participate. 34 patients assessed eligibility, which 13 included the analysis. Multiple sources data co...

BACKGROUND Anesthesiologists deliver large quantities of verbal information to patients during preoperative teaching. Basic principles of cognitive psychology dictate that much of this information is likely to be forgotten. Exactly how much and what type of information can be retained and recalled remains an open question. METHODS With Institutional Review Board approval, 98 healthy, educated...

How does orthographic distinctiveness affect recall of structured (categorized) word lists? On one theory, enhanced item-specific information (e.g., more distinct encoding) in concert with robust relational information (e.g., categorical information) optimally supports free recall. This predicts that for categorically structured lists, orthographically distinct (OD) word lists should be recalle...

The ability to spontaneously recall recently learned information is a fundamental mnemonic activity of daily life, but has received little study using functional neuroimaging. We developed a functional MRI (fMRI) paradigm to study regional brain activity during encoding that predicts free recall. In this event-related fMRI study, ten lists of fourteen pictures of common objects were shown to he...