Hospitalized patients' and family members' preferences for real-time, transparent access to their hospital records.

Objectives: To better understand patient satisfaction and perceived engagement with traditional hospital-based communication and to elicit patient preferences for health information technologies that would lead to improved satisfaction and engagement.

Study Design: We performed a mixed-methods study involving qualitative interviews followed by a survey of hospitalized patients and their family members at a single large academic medical center.

Methods: We conducted semi-structured interviews with 41 patients and surveyed 267 patients or family members to elicit their perspectives on satisfaction with traditional hospital communication methods, information needed to more fully engage in the patients' medical care, and potential solutions for improved hospital-based communication.

Complications of foot surgery. Bone fixation devices. Considerations and consequences.

We have attempted to demonstrate the different healing patterns of cancellous and cortical bone and show how fixation devices impact healing. The incidence of hypersensitivity reactions, migration, and malignancy associated with fixation devices may be more prevalent in podiatric surgery than previously thought.