Put a Face to a Name: A Randomized Controlled Trial Evaluating the Impact of Providing Clinician Photographs on Inpatients' Recall

Inpatients are visited by many health care providers daily; many cannot remember the name of even one member of their clinical care team. We provided inpatients with photographs of their clinicians and evaluated the impact on patient recall and communication with their health care providers.A concealed allocation, randomized controlled trial (ClinicalTrials.gov NCT01658644) was conducted between September 2012 and April 2013 in the general...