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Confronting Health Literacy: Helping Patients Understand
Confronting Health Literacy: Helping Patients Understand
Friday, October 31, 2014
Pain is a huge part of the patient experience. And while we can’t eliminate pain, helping patients understand how to talk about their pain, medications, and multimodal treatment can go a long way to improving what people go through both in the hospital and as they transition to home. This has been one of the themes on the Health Literacy Series. Here are a few of the highlights:
Patient Kerry O’Connell’s article:
Relatively Painful
Amy Bucher’s piece:
Communicating About Pain
Diana Dilger explains:
My Pain Is Always Going to be a 10
Another challenge is the role health literacy and patient understanding plays in both over- and under-treatment. Helping people understand and share in treatment decisions can be complex. But the more we think about the short and long term effects on quality of life, and the many human and monetary costs of inappropriate utilization, it’s worth finding ways to help patients understand:
Dr. Corey Siegel’s article:
If Goldilocks Had a Thermometer
Angie Newman asks:
Are We Abusing Dialysis?
Gary Schwitzer on
The Role Media Messages Play in Overdiagnosis & Overtreatment
For more like this, check out the
2014 Health Literacy Month Series: The Recap
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