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Important: Not all clinical recommendations from other sources have been reviewed for validity and ours may or may not be uptodate, so selections below should be viewed as representing examples of approaches and formats for communications, etc. Feel free to contact us for details. Read our Health Care Information Source Cautions at Notices.

Volumes

• General Help for Patient-centered Approaches
• Online Resources for Patients, Clinicians & Others
• Clinician + Patient Communications
• Sample Communications: Text, Layout, Visual Aids

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Volume Contents

Volume: General Help for Patient-centered Approaches

• What matters to patients? Here's what we think
• Delfini Approach to Patient Decision-making
• Recommended Reading
  • Physician-Patient Communications
  • Decision-making
  • Conveying Risk
  • Adherence

Volume: Online Resources for Patients, Clinicians & Others (some available by subscription only)

• BMJ BestTreatments
• Cochrane Informed Health Online — Cochrane summaries for patients
• Consumer Reports "Best Buy Drug"
• DIPEx — Illness information for patients including their experiences
• Medline Plus
• New Zealand Guidelines Group Risk Calculator for Primary Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease
• RegenceRx®: Pharmacy Benefit Management drug review summaries

Volume: Clinician + Patient Communications

• Physician Communications with Patients — Information & Engagement: The Evidence
• Communications with Patients — A Clinician-centered "Map" for Information & Engagement
• Discussing Information and Decisions with Patients
• Bandolier on Patients and Risk Information
• The Importance of Physician Engagement with Patients — Effects of Decision Aids for Menorrhagia on Treatment Choices, Health Outcomes, and Costs
• Potential Value of Decision Aids
• Screening and Decision Aids
• Messaging Scripts for Implementing Clinical Practice Change: Osteoporosis Example
• Strategies for Increasing Adherence
• The Resourceful Patient

Volume: Sample Communications: Text, Layout, Visual Aids

• Delfini Rx Messaging Scripts™: Messaging scripts are targeted treatment messaging & decision support tools for specific clinical topics.   This tool, and accompanying template, can help you construct your own
• Patient Decision-Aid: Delfini Patient Decision Aid for Menopause (sample only, no guarantee that this is complete or up-to-date)
• Patient Information Checklist example: Chronic Kidney Disease Guideline Patient Information. Read more information about the Kaiser Permanente Nephrology Guideline Project here.
• newest Drug Facts Boxes: Examples
• Patient Flowcharts: This is for illustration of examples only — we have not evaluated this content
• Delfini Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS) Guideline: guideline resource kit sample of an"explicit" evidence-based clinical practice guideline, information and decision aids and patient information
• Acute Bronchitis: Visual aids for patients and shown to help reduce antibiotic use for viral infections
• Cardiovascular Risk Calculators: Great tool for doctors and patients
• Diagnostic Test Calculator: We all have trouble understanding diagnostic testing measures of functions — odds, probabilities, and all that. Here's a calculator that communicates the outcomes in natural language. Useful for clinicians and patients
• Consumer Drug Reviews: From the Oregon Evidence-based Practice Center: Delfini Review of NSAIDS and Cox2 Inhibitors — Ways to convey evidence-based information to patients

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05/27/09: Drug Facts Boxes: Examples

Other Information

• Delfini publications in various sources available online

• About PMID Numbers: We frequently utilize a PMID number in place of a citation. Where PMID numbers are available, enter that number into the PubMed search box to retrieve that citation and listing.

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