Background Many systematic reviews exist on interventions to improve safe and effective
medicines use by consumers, but research is distributed across diseases, populations and …

Study objective We conduct a systematic review with meta-analysis to provide an overview
of the different manners of providing discharge instructions in the emergency department …

Communication at discharge is an important part of high-quality emergency department (ED)
care. This review describes the existing literature on patient understanding and …

Objectives This review examines the use and effectiveness of Question Prompt Lists (QPL)
as communication aids to enhance patient question asking, information provision to patients …

Context Patient recall of treatment information is a key variable towards chronic disease
(CD) management. It is unclear what communication and patient participation characteristics …

Background The ability of patients to understand pharmacotherapy information is critical to
the successful use of medications. One of the risk factors that may predispose the patient to …

Background The aim of this study was to assess the information needs and experiences of
patients who were recently diagnosed with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). Methods …

Objective Patients' knowledge and expectations may influence prescription of antibiotics.
Therefore, providing evidence-based information on cause of symptoms, self-management …

Limited patient understanding of hypertension contributes to poor health outcomes. In 2
sequential randomized studies, the authors determined the impact of administering …

Objective To systematically review audio-visual (AV) interventions for promoting informed
consent (IC) in clinical practice and to consider the impact of reading age adjustment …