Giving patients prior information about diagnostic tests can help improve patient outcomes and give reassurance, according to a new study from New Zealand. In the study, researchers set out to analyse whether giving patients information about the meaning of normal results prior to testing would improve reassurance following medical testing. Some 92 patients with chest [...]
No data on national assaults on doctors
February 1, 2007 By Leave a Comment
The Health Service Executive does not have centralised statistics for assaults on healthcare staff, it has acknowledged. A spokesperson for the HSE said these type of figures are collated and held by individual hospitals, but the statistics are not collated in national figures. The spokesperson added that it is difficult to collect the figures for [...]