Tag Archives: National Academies

Engaging Patients

NASEM Workshop Focuses on Improving Diagnosis for Older Adults

by Susan Carr • September 7, 2022 • 0 Comments

The National Academy of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine recently completed a valuable 5-part series of workshops on diagnosis. The series, which is available for free on the NASEM website, is impressive for the range of topics and experts it involves, reflecting the breadth of issues — including patient and family engagement — that must be […]

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Susan Carr Susan Carr is a medical editor and writer specializing in patient safety and engagement. In addition to curating the EngagingPatients blog, she produces publications for the Betsy Lehman Center in Boston and the Society to Improve Diagnosis in Medicine. Susan lives and works in Lunenburg, Massachusetts.

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Health Literacy

Making the Business Case for Health Literacy

by Susan Carr • September 20, 2018 • One Comment

I looked forward to seeing the published proceedings of a one-day roundtable on health literacy held by the Health and Medicine Division of the National Academies in November 2017. I find the topic of health literacy compelling. As a writer, I know how challenging it is to communicate clearly about anything, never mind something as […]

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Susan Carr Susan Carr is a medical editor and writer specializing in patient safety and engagement. In addition to curating the EngagingPatients blog, she produces publications for the Betsy Lehman Center in Boston and the Society to Improve Diagnosis in Medicine. Susan lives and works in Lunenburg, Massachusetts.

Susan Carr has 185 post(s) at EngagingPatients.org

Check out my: Twitter