Background: Patient-centered communication has been associated with positive patient outcomes such as improved patient understanding and adherence to therapy. Teaching patient-centered care (PCC) and communication throughout a hospital stay, with an emphasis on understanding each patient’s perspective and circumstances, is a focus on one of four general inpatient medicine services at our hospital. We did […]

Background: With the advance of medicine and aging society, elderly inpatients occupy a greater proportion of admission. However, few studies deal with this issue in the literature. We investigated the clinical determinants of hospitalization duration and overall outcome in a specific population, patients older than 90. Methods: We retrospectively enrolled all admitted patients aged > […]