A New Measure of Health Numeracy: Brief Medical Numbers Test (BMNT).

Background: Approximately half of Americans have inadequate health literacy, which leads to poorer health outcomes. Health numeracy is an important component of literacy, which reflects one's ability to understand and manipulate numbers. This is especially important for transplant candidates, as adherence to medical recommendations is essential for posttransplant care.

Listening to a patient: An exploratory experimental investigation into the effects of vocalization and therapist gender on interpreting clinical material.

Carefully listening to the patient is of paramount importance for psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic psychotherapy. The present study explored whether patient vocalization as well as the gender of the analyst play significant roles in clinical listening. Fifty-one psychoanalysts and psychoanalytic therapists were randomly assigned to listen to one of two dramatized psychoanalytic sessions.

The use of the Nursing Interventions Classification (NIC) with cardiac patients receiving home health care.

Purpose: To identify Nursing Interventions Classification interventions (NICs) commonly provided to cardiac home care patients and to explore differences among patients with coronary artery disease, congestive heart failure, and patients with other cardiac disorders.

Methods: The NICs provided to cardiac home care patients were recorded and analyzed to determine differences in frequencies across cardiac diagnoses.

Findings: Frequent NICs provided in cardiac home care are similar across diagnoses, and include tissue perfusion management and patient education NICs.