Patient-centered Resources:
Samples

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.

Contents      

• 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.
• 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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Delfini Patient Information and Decision Aid for Menopause (sample only — not complete or up-to-date)
If you are a subscriber, look at BestTreatments as well for information on more treatment options and other information!

Here's a link to an example of a Patient Decision-Aid we created to illustrate how one might communicate around menopause issues — be patient for loading (or you might want to just print it out)— this is a big one:

Decision Aid — Menopause [PDF]

Read Patient Decision Aids: Potential value of patient decision aids »

Patient Flow Charts (samples only — we have not evaluated this content)
Here are examples of patient flow charts — another way to effectively present information and choices to patients.

http://familydoctor.org/flowcharts/537.html

Acute Bronchitis
Here's a link to an example of how to display Patient Information that we like (see the Campaign Poster at the bottom of the link):

Example from:
Decreasing antibiotic use in ambulatory practice: impact of a multidimensional intervention on the treatment of uncomplicated acute bronchitis in adults

Gonzales R, Steiner JF, Lum A, Barrett PH Jr. Division of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, Denver 80262, USA. Ralph.Gonzales@uchsc.edu. JAMA 1999 Apr 28;281(16):1512-9

http://www.uchsc.edu/uh/gim/educate/bronchitis.html

Cardiovascular Risk Calculators
Tools that can provide instant evidence-based answers are very much needed by clinicians. Tools that can provide customized information to patients are more likely to be used by patients.

Here's an example of an electronic risk calculator done by our friends of the New Zealand Guidelines Group in the New Zealand Health Ministry.

http://www.cebm.net/prognosis.asp

Delfini Review of Oregon Evidence-based Practice Center Consumer Drug Reviews:
About NSAIDS and Cox2 Inhibitors (as of 8/2002)
General Information for Consumers: Evidence-based Medicine & Oregon Evidence-based Practice Center Drug Reviews

We reviewed consumer drug information developed by the Oregon Evidence-based practice center. This patient-centered piece is an example of evidence-based writing for consumers. Note: the information in this piece is based on Cox2 Inhibitors as a drug class. New Cox 2 Inhibitors may become available after the time of this writing (8/2002) which may be categorically different.

Decision Aid - About NSAIDS and Cox2 Inhibitors [PDF]