Problems after discharge and understanding of communication with their primary care physicians among hospitalized seniors: a mixed methods study.

Background: Communication and coordination with primary care physicians (PCPs) is recommended to ensure safe care transitions for hospitalized older patients. Understanding patient experiences of problems after discharge can help clinical teams design more patient-centered care transitions.

Objective: To report older patients' experiences with problems after hospital discharge and investigate whether PCPs were aware of their hospitalization.

Interns overestimate the effectiveness of their hand-off communication.

Objective: Theories from the psychology of communication may be applicable in understanding why hand-off communication is inherently problematic. The purpose of this study was to assess whether postcall pediatric interns can correctly estimate the patient care information and rationale received by on-call interns during hand-off communication.

Methods: Pediatric interns at the University of Chicago were interviewed about the hand-off.

Improving inpatients' identification of their doctors: use of FACE cards.

Background: Improving patients' ability to identify their inpatient physicians and understand their roles is vital to safe patient care. Picture cards were designed to facilitate physician introductions. The effect of Feedback Care and Evaluation (FACE) cards on patients' ability to correctly identify their inpatient physicians and on patients understanding of physicians roles was assessed.

A new method in accelerating PROPELLER MRI.

In this work, a new method has been proposed to accelerate the PROPELLER MRI operation. The proposed method uses a rotary phased array coil and a new method in acquiring the k-space strips and preparing the complete k-space trajectories data set. It is numerically shown that for a 12 strips PROPELLER MR brain imaging sequence, the operation time can be reduced by four folds, with no apparent loss in the image quality.

Decoherence as a probe of coherent quantum dynamics.

The effect of decoherence, induced by spontaneous emission, on the dynamics of cold atoms periodically kicked by an optical lattice is experimentally and theoretically studied. Ideally, the mean energy growth is essentially unaffected by weak decoherence, but the resonant momentum distributions are fundamentally altered. It is shown that experiments are inevitably sensitive to certain nontrivial features of these distributions, in a way that explains the puzzle of the observed enhancement of resonances by decoherence [Phys.