Background: Communication between patients, nurses and physicians is vital to patient care. Prior studies have shown that a substantial number of hospitalized patients do not understand their care plan and that physician-nurse co-location or time spent communicating have little impact on physician-nurse concordance of plan of care. To our knowledge, there have been no prior [...]

Background: Studies regarding patient comprehension have mainly focused on discharge instructions and information, and few studies are available on patients’ comprehension of their treatment while hospitalized. The standards for patient-centered communication by The Joint Commission and the New York State Patients’ Bill of Rights, state that patients should be informed participants in their own health [...]

Background: Syncope scores San Francisco Syncope Rule (SFSR) and Evaluation of Guidelines in Syncope Study (EGSYS)(1) are used as screening tools for predicting adverse outcomes among patient with syncope(1, 2). Surprisingly for scoring systems used for risk stratification of same clinical condition, differ significantly based on variables of importance used in calculating individual scores. An [...]

Background: In an effort to improve the design of future noninferiority studies, the endpoints for registrational trials of antimicrobials for the treatment of community-acquired bacterial pneumonia (CABP) were recently updated [1]. Lefamulin (LEF) is a first-in-class systemic pleuromutilin antibiotic newly approved for the treatment of adults with CABP [2]. The efficacy of LEF was demonstrated [...]