BACKGROUND: Coronary artery disease (CAD) is the leading cause of cardiovascular mortality
worldwide, with >4.5 million deaths occurring in the developing world. Despite a recent …

Background An admission to hospital for acute illness can be difficult for patients and lead
to high levels of anxiety. Patients are given a lot of information throughout their hospital stay …

Despite growing international interest, the caregiving body of literature lacks a recent
understanding of young carers’ experiences and their contact with the health care system. We …

Health literacy is the extent to which patients are able to understand and act upon health
information. This concept is important for surgeons as their patients have to comprehend the …

BACKGROUND Patient‐centered discharge tools provide an opportunity to engage patients,
enhance patient understanding, and improve capacity for self‐care and postdischarge …

OBJECTIVE Our objective was to examine the effect of language barriers on the risk of acute
and chronic complications of diabetes and on mortality among immigrants. RESEARCH …

For hospitalized patients, the transition from hospital to home is frequently accompanied by
a significant amount of information to absorb. The objective of this work was to engage …

The purpose of this paper is to review the randomized controlled trial (RCT) data investigating
cardiac medical therapy for patients after coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG). We …

Background Patients and caregivers often face significant challenges when they are
discharged home from hospital. We sought to understand what influenced patient and caregiver …

… Shoshana Hahn-Goldberg, Karen Okrainec, Cynthia Damba, Tai Huynh, Davina Lau,
Joanne Maxwell, Ryan McGuire, Lily Yang and Howard B. Abrams … Karen Okrainec, MD …