Prevention and Patient Education Resources

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Prevention and Patient Education Resources

• Nancy B. Clark, M.Ed.
• Director of Medical Informatics Education

http//www.med.fsu.edu/informatics/communications.
asp
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Objectives

• Why print handouts?
• Considerations
• Finding Guidelines and Handouts
• Computer Based
• Web Based
• Checking Readability with Word
• Translating

Patient Education Handouts
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Why Handouts?

• Memory
• Anxiety
• Hearing
• Demand management
• Communication
• Complexity

Patient Education Handouts
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Typical Office Generated

• Prescription refill requests
• Referral requests
• How to help your doctor run on time
• The role of midlevel providers
• Doctors' availability after hours
• Procedures for school physical appointments

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Others

• Medication Schedule
• Wound Care
• Community Resources
• Immunization Schedule/Record
• Disease management
• More

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Computer Based

• Stand alone vs EMR
• English and Spanish
• Authors
• Variety
• Adult, Seniors, Peds, Womens, Medications
• Modifiable
• Office Information

• Clinical Reference Systems
• Micro Medix
• Practice Partner
• AAFP Handouts

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Web Based

• Issues
• Web access
• Bandwidth
• Validity/Bias
• Currency
• PATIENTS ARE READING THIS!

• Not quick access
• Bookmark good sites

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FSU Patient Ed Resources

• Direct link from Library Webpage
  http//med.fsu.edu/library/patienteducation.asp
• Direct link from Medical Websites
  http//med.fsu.edu/library/PatientEd.asp
• Prevention resources also on Medical Websites

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General Patient Ed Web Sites

• MDConsult and FirstConsult
• AAFP Handouts
• American Academy of Pediatrics
• CDC Health Topics
• MEDLINE Plus
• ePocrates Online

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Chronic Disease Specific Sites

• American Diabetic Association
• American Lung Association
• Arthritis Foundation Handouts
• American Academy Allergy, Asthma, and Immunology

• What they have
• Handouts
• Support groups
• Local chapter locations
• Discussion lists

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Web-based

• Reviewing a site
• ease of use
• quality of handouts
• number of available handouts
• type of patients/handouts
• whether you might use this site
• Bookmark the site

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Prevention, Public Health and Population Resources

• Guide to Clinical Preventive Services (USPSTF)
• CDC Prevention Guidelines Database
• Healthy People 2010 (DHHS)
• Immunizationed.org
• Travelers' Health CDC
• National Center for Farm Workers Health

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Searching For Handouts

• COM Digital Medical Library
• Look for Prevention Resources or
• Patient and Family Resources
• Medical Matrix
• Search for ??? In Patient Education Resources
  Only

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Considerations

• Reading level
• Language
• Design
• Illustrations
• Content
• Demand-management value
• Ethnicity
• Source

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Using Word Check Reading Level

• Tools menu, Options, Spelling Grammar tab.
• Check grammar with spelling, yes
• Show readability statistics, yes
• OK.
• Check Spelling
• When Microsoft Word finishes checking spelling
  and grammar, it displays information about the
  reading level of the document.

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Using Google to Translate

• Find handout and copy it or if online URL
• Go to Google
• Click on Language Tools
• Select language to translate
• Paste URL or text
• Submit

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Using Word to Translate

• Highlight text to translate
• Under the Tools Menu
• Select Languages (vXP)
• Select Translate
• From English to Pick language
• Hit arrow if it does not do it for you.

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Using Word to Translate

• Bajo menú de las herramientas
• adjetivo selecto
• Debajo De los Libros De Consulta, seleccione la
  traducción
• De inglés... a la lengua de la selección

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Caution

• Simplier the handout, better translator works

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How to Use Handout

• Sit next to patient
• Review with patient
• Provide pen/marker
• Point with finger to items
• Communicate priorities (most important point)
• Check for understanding

Strategies to Improve Compliance
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Lets Find Stuff
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Patient 1

• Mr. Jones is a 52 yr old construction worker,
  high school dropout, who is newly diagnosed with
  hypothyroidism. You prescribe Synthroid, 50mg
  qd. Find an appropriate handout that explains
  how to take the medication and one explaining the
  condition.

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Patient 2

• You are going to represent FSU at a health fair
  for migrant farmworkers. Find a good handout in
  Spanish to give children that explains how to
  brush their teeth.