Patient Education Management Archives – June 1, 2010
June 1, 2010
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Health reform promises improved access, more patients to educate
Although no one is sure what the new health care legislation will look like when fully implemented, all agree it will give more people access to preventive and medical care. -
Website aids caregivers in Alzheimer's
It is estimated that Alzheimer's disease affects 5.3 million Americans, making it difficult for them to function in some very simple, ordinary ways. Yet families are often caught off guard when the diagnosis is made, for they cannot imagine how the behavior of a loved one is altered as the disease progresses. -
Telephone conversations provide education
About 9,000 patients at Marshfield (WI) Clinic learn self-care and disease management over the telephone from registered nurses. There are three telephonic care management programs that include the anticoagulation service, heart failure care management, and dyslipidemia care management. -
EOL video studied with cancer patients
The latest in a series of papers published by researchers led by Angelo Volandes, MD, MPH, instructor in medicine at Harvard Medical School and documentary filmmaker, looked at the use of a video depicting real-life cardiopulmonary resuscitation, as well as other life-sustaining treatments often faced by patients at the end of life. -
Ensure that patients are in the correct status
From the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services' (CMS) perspective, the saying "ignorance is bliss" does not apply when it comes to a patient's status.