Case Presentation: A 90 year old female with invasive ductal carcinoma of the breast previously treated with lumpectomy and whole breast radiotherapy, currently on hormonal therapy presented to the hospital with 3 days of confusion, slurred speech, generalized weakness and erythema of the right chest and right lower extremity. Patient denied recent changes in skin […]

Background: Many hospitals lack adequate resources to provide pharmacist‐delivered discharge counseling for all inpatients. We hypothesized that health literacy testing could identify a manageable subset of high‐risk diabetic and anticoagulation patients in need of additional discharge counseling. Methods: Patients admitted to a general medicine unit who were prescribed warfarin, insulin glargine, or insulin NPH during […]