Provider--Patient Communication Among Elderly and Nonelderly Patients in Canadian Hospitals: A National Survey

We compared provider-patient communication problems experienced by elderly (65 years of age or older) and nonelderly (less than 65 years of age) adult medical and surgical patients discharged home from Canadian acute care hospitals. Four thousand five hundred ninety nine patients from a stratified random sample of 57 public, acute-care Canadian hospitals in six provinces who were telephone interviewed in 1991-1992 using a structured …