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- 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
- The do’s and donts of calling out a patients bad behavior
Make patients aware that they are able to seek care from other sources if they persist in opposing treatment from the physician assigned If patients require immediate care, inform them that, unless they exercise their right to leave, care will be provided by appropriately qualified staff independent of their expressed preference
- What doctors wish patients knew about prostate cancer
“Prostate cancer—in the majority of patients—is a silent disease,” said Dr Kozlowski “People do not have outward signs or symptoms of prostate cancer And that's why screening is important And if people do have signs or symptoms, it usually means they have a later stage of the disease ”
- What doctors wish patients knew about the impact of caffeine
The AMA’s What Doctors Wish Patients Knew™ series provides physicians with a platform to share what they want patients to understand about today’s health care headlines In this installment, four AMA members shared what doctors wish patients knew about caffeine They are:
- Suicide prevention guide to treat at-risk patients
Understanding financial considerations of how to bill for screening, evaluation and treatment of patients experiencing suicidal ideation, including awareness of specific Current Procedural Terminology (CPT®) codes, will help ensure the sustainability of a comprehensive suicide prevention and treatment protocol
- What Doctors Wish Patients Knew™ - American Medical Association
When it comes to effective doctor-patient communication, it's important that both parties are speaking from a base of shared knowledge The American Medical Association provides a space where physicians share what they want patients to understand about today's health care headlines
- What doctors wish patients knew about eating disorders
The AMA’s What Doctors Wish Patients Knew™ series provides physicians with a platform to share what they want patients to understand about today’s health care headlines For this installment, AMA member Theresa Rohr-Kirchgraber, MD , an internist in Athens, Georgia, and past president of the American Medical Women’s Association
- 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
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