Pediatric primary care providers need more training and support in respectfully addressing weight issues with families while avoiding inadvertently stigmatizing terms, suggest findings from a ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Only 10% of hospital patient portals offered access in languages other than English or Spanish. Patients who ...

A new study shows that when clinicians hear a patient described with negatively biased language, they develop less empathy towards the patient and, in some cases, become less accurate in recalling the ...

Impact of a Clinical Genomics Program on Trial Accrual for Targeted Treatments: Practical Approach Overcoming Barriers to Accrual for Underserved Patients Patient portal secure messages from the ...

EVERETT — Providence faces a class-action lawsuit over claims the hospital system fails to effectively communicate with patients who use sign language. The lawsuit, filed Tuesday in U.S. District ...

Patients often encounter a flood of information along their medical care journey - some of it helpful, much of it overwhelming. Whether they're reading an educational article online, flipping through ...

When doctors and nurses pass patient information from one shift to another—an exchange known as a "handoff"—the specific ...