Two health experts debated whether providers should ask all patients about their sexual orientation after the National Health Service of England released guidelines late last year arguing these ...

Strong, visible support from hospital leadership is just one of several drivers for achieving successful patient experience, according to research results from the Beryl Institute’s most recent ...

(Reuters Health) - LGBT patients treated in the emergency room (ER) are more comfortable reporting their sexual orientation on a medical form rather than in a discussion with a health care provider, a ...

For emergency medicine clinicians who learned to defer to patients' privacy on sexual orientation and gender identification, asking questions is a major culture change. As HHS moves toward advancing ...

Sharing your medical history can lead to some highly personal conversations in a hospital or physician’s office, but full disclosure is necessary to achieve the best health. There’s another equally ...

Time passed in slow motion that day. Patients had to be dressed and prepared for physical therapy and other therapies, and medications had to be administered on time, so we couldn't stop moving. As I ...

Integrating data collection on sexual orientation and gender identity into the meaningful use requirements is both acceptable to patients and feasible using existing question designs. The Institute of ...

We used data from 796,594 population-based English General Practice Patient Survey responders to explore the prevalence of self-reported diagnoses of cancer in the last 5 years among sexual minorities ...