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The View From The Icu, Nathan D. Nielsen Jun 2020

The View From The Icu, Nathan D. Nielsen

New Mexicans Reflect on Health and Wellness During COVID-19

A New Mexico doctor describes the pain and horror of caring for COVID-19 patients. Reprinted with permission of Stanford magazine.


2020-06-10 A Message From Chancellor Roth, Paul B. Roth Jun 2020

2020-06-10 A Message From Chancellor Roth, Paul B. Roth

HSC Messages from the Chancellor

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2020-04-24 A Message From Chancellor Roth, Paul B. Roth Apr 2020

2020-04-24 A Message From Chancellor Roth, Paul B. Roth

HSC Messages from the Chancellor

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2020-04-14 A Message From Chancellor Roth, Paul B. Roth Apr 2020

2020-04-14 A Message From Chancellor Roth, Paul B. Roth

HSC Messages from the Chancellor

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Comparing The Effectiveness Of Using Educational Booklet Or Brief Video On Patients’ Knowledge, Perceptions And Willingness To Participate In Placebo-Controlled Clinical Trials, Khalid F. Almoaikel, Dennis Raisch, Matthew Borrego, Mike Sather, Mark Holdsworth May 2017

Comparing The Effectiveness Of Using Educational Booklet Or Brief Video On Patients’ Knowledge, Perceptions And Willingness To Participate In Placebo-Controlled Clinical Trials, Khalid F. Almoaikel, Dennis Raisch, Matthew Borrego, Mike Sather, Mark Holdsworth

Pharmaceutical Sciences ETDs

Background and Objectives: Limited knowledge about clinical trials can influence a patient’s willingness to participate in medical research. For placebo-controlled clinical trials, it is more difficult to recruit patients compared to clinical trials without a placebo arm. Thus, educating individuals about clinical trials and placebos can potentially improve their perceptions about clinical trials and might increase their willingness to enroll in them. The study objectives include:

1) To design educational interventions (a booklet and a video) to improve a patient’s knowledge of placebo controlled clinical trials.

2) To compare the impact of the educational interventions (booklet, video or both) on …


It's Like A Giant Game Of Telephone: Physicians' Perceptions Of Effective Communication In The Emergency Department Context', Marleah Dean Jul 2011

It's Like A Giant Game Of Telephone: Physicians' Perceptions Of Effective Communication In The Emergency Department Context', Marleah Dean

Communication ETDs

Despite the growing number of emergency department visits, effective communication between patients and physicians are often overlooked because of the fast- paced nature of the emergency department (ED). As such, we do not know what is seen as effective communication within this particular context. Therefore, the goal of this study was to learn how emergency department physicians define effective communication and identify the barriers and facilitators to communicating in the ED. Seventeen semi-structured, open-ended interviews were conducted with ED physicians. Interviews were recorded and transcribed into a Word document. Data analysis included two steps—the constant comparison method (Lindlof & Taylor, …


Empowering, Embracing, Energizing Customers: A Mandate For Change, Patricia Brennan May 2002

Empowering, Embracing, Energizing Customers: A Mandate For Change, Patricia Brennan

Historical and Administrative Collection

Health informatics innovations are acceptable to lay persons and their family caregivers, and their use helps community-dwelling people recover faster, and with fewer complications. Full value of consumer health informatics tools, however, necessitates systematic changes in health care delivery wherein the patient emerges as a full partner in the co-creation of health care and health services.