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Language use in the informed consent discussion for emergency proceduresDanielle M McCarthy
Department of Emergency Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, USA
Teach Learn Med 24:315-20. 2012..Few studies have examined spoken communication in a way that is comparable to analyses of written communication...
What did the doctor say? Health literacy and recall of medical instructionsDanielle M McCarthy
Department of Emergency Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL 60611, USA
Med Care 50:277-82. 2012..We sought to investigate patients' ability to recall spoken medical instructions in the context of a hypothetical clinical encounter, and whether limited health literacy would adversely affect performance on the task...
Hospitalization for caffeine abuse is associated with abuse of other pharmaceutical productsDanielle M McCarthy
Department of Emergency Medicine, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern Memorial Hospital, Chicago, IL 60611, USA
Am J Emerg Med 26:799-802. 2008..The aim of this study was to examine the characteristics and outcomes of patients seeking treatment for abuse of supplemental caffeine...
Patient understanding of emergency department discharge instructions: where are knowledge deficits greatest?Kirsten G Engel
Department of Emergency Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, USA
Acad Emerg Med 19:E1035-44. 2012..The objective of this study was to further characterize these deficits and identify gaps in knowledge that may place the patient at risk for complications or poor outcomes...
Literacy and race as risk factors for low rates of advance directives in older adultsKatherine R Waite
Health Literacy and Learning Program, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL 60611, USA
J Am Geriatr Soc 61:403-6. 2013..To examine the effect of the relationship between literacy and other individual-level factors on having an advance directive (AD)...
Emergency Department Discharge Instructions: Lessons Learned through Developing New Patient Education MaterialsDanielle M McCarthy
Department of Emergency Medicine, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, 211 E Ontario St, Suite 200, Chicago, IL 60611, USA
Emerg Med Int 2012:306859. 2012..However, while the tools were necessary, they were not sufficient. This paper describes the insights gained and lessons learned in this document creation process...
Examining emergency department communication through a staff-based participatory research method: identifying barriers and solutions to meaningful changeKenzie A Cameron
Division of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL 60611, USA
Ann Emerg Med 56:614-22. 2010..We test an initiative with the staff-based participatory research (SBPR) method to elicit communication barriers and engage staff in identifying strategies to improve communication within our emergency department (ED)...
Self-reported use of communication techniques in the emergency departmentDanielle M McCarthy
Department of Emergency Medicine, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois 60611, USA
J Emerg Med 43:e355-61. 2012..Communication is considered a core competency for physicians. However, the Emergency Department setting poses significant and unique communication challenges...
