Editor’s note: Video and slides for the Town Hall for kidney patients held on May 15 are available on the Betsy Lehman Center website. The American Kidney Fund, IPRO and the Betsy Lehman Center for Patient Safety will co-host the first in a series of virtual “Town Hall” meetings for kidney patients at noon to […]
The Patient Experience Journal or PXJ invites authors to submit manuscripts for a special issue devoted to “sustaining a focus on human experience in the face of COVID-19.” The issue will be published this summer. Articles submitted for the special issue must be received by June 1, 2020. PXJ is an open access, peer-reviewed digital […]
Strict limitations on who may visit hospital patients and residents in long-term care facilities are among the most painful changes resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic. Although most people understand the need to prevent potential transmission of the virus, not being able to be present with loved ones who are sick or even at the end […]
The threat posed by COVID-19 has upended daily life all over the globe. The switch from pre-COVID normal to COVID abnormal was jarring, but as time goes on, some of those changes will persist as the new normal. Telemedicine, for example, was a long time coming, became outpatient medicine’s new ballgame practically overnight, and now […]
Editor’s Note: Ilene Corina and her colleagues at the Pulse Center for Patient Safety Education & Advocacy are leading a 5-month-long campaign to encourage everyone to become better informed and more engaged in their healthcare. Between now and August 2020, the campaign, “Take Charge: 5 Steps to Safer Health Care,” will focus on one action per […]
“Honestly, I think we’re all trying to figure out how worried to be.” – Dr. William Dale, quoted by Judith Graham Editor’s note: From washing canned goods to disinfecting our cellphones, leaving packing boxes on the porch, self-quarantining and wondering if all 60 year olds are at “high risk,” the novel coronavirus has us all […]