- Latest Patient Education Resources - American Medical Association
Stay on top of the latest developments related to patient education Browse the AMA’s patient education resources, full of information and tools that physicians can share with their patients, including educational handouts for patients and other patient education materials
- Do’s and don’ts for effective patient-physician communication
In short, the tips are about creating an environment in which patients feel cared for and understood, which leads to better medical outcomes and more trust in medical professionals Creating that relationship can take time, though “Effective communication takes deliberation and practice,” the article says
- What doctors wish patients knew about atrial fibrillation
The AMA’s What Doctors Wish Patients Knew™ series gives physicians a platform to share what they want patients to understand about today’s health care headlines In this installment, Paari Dominic, MBBS, MPH, a cardiac electrophysiologist and associate professor of internal and cardiovascular medicine at University of Iowa Health Care
- Follow these 5 steps to create meaningful patient connections
To improve clinical encounters with patients, physicians can learn from the Presence 5 project, which aims to develop a simple, scalable evidence-based intervention that helps enhance the patient-physician connection The effort was described in detail in a JAMA article last year
- What doctors wish patients knew about sciatica
In this installment, Kevin Taliaferro, MD, an orthopaedic surgeon at Henry Ford Health, took time to discuss what patients need to know about sciatica Henry Ford Health is a member of the AMA Health System Program , which provides enterprise solutions to equip leadership, physicians and care teams with resources to help drive the future of
- What doctors wish patients knew about peripheral artery disease
The AMA’s What Doctors Wish Patients Knew™ series gives physicians a platform to share what they want patients to understand about today’s health care headlines In this installment, Charles C Leithead, MD, a vascular surgeon at Ochsner Health in New Orleans and Gretna, Louisiana, discusses what to know about peripheral artery disease
- What doctors wish patients knew about improving eye health
“Patients with diabetes are at much greater risk and need to have annual eye checkups regardless of age,” Dr Aizuss said That’s “because you can get diabetic eye disease, leaky blood vessels in the retina, which when caught early can be dealt with to prevent later problems ”
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