Michael Stuart MD
President &
Medical Director
Delfini Group
mstuart (at) delfini.org

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A helpful resource for patient-centered care ideas and samples...see what's new here

Sheri Ann Strite
Principal &
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Delfini Group
sstrite (at) delfini.org

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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"
• Delfini Messaging Scripts™: See Samples for evidence-based messages for patients on specific clinical topics.
  newest "Prevention of Venous Thromboemobolism (VTE) in Total Hip and Total Knee Replacement"
• 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.
• 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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