In this single center prospective cohort of 159 English-speaking patients discharged from the ED, follow up interviews at 24-36 hours assessed their understanding of their diagnosis, medications, home care, follow up, and return instructions. Knowledge deficits were found in 80% of patients for home care instructions, 79% for return instructions, 39% for follow up, 22% for medications, 14% for diagnosis. Continued research is needed to determine how to assess knowledge deficits in discharge instructions before patients are discharged (abstract).
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