Using social media for ...

One group of patients have poorer health outcomes because of socio-economic disparities and low functional health literacy. In response, health care providers are actively learning the skills to reach and help them, by providing clearly written handouts, asking them to teach back...

Evidence-based ways to ...

A great deal of patient education content is now focusing on the treatment of obesity. Nutrition has been in the forefront for years, with good fats and bad fats, good carbs and bad carbs, antioxidants and anti-inflammatories. But weight loss depends on burning more calories than...

Helping heart failure p...

A recent qualitative study from the University of Groningen Medical Center (in The Netherlands) looked for reasons for and barriers to compliance with the self-care plan. Their conclusions: “To improve compliance in HF [heart failure] patients, patient-tailored interventions...

What do stage 3 chronic...

Every once in a while, a study is published asking a group of patients what they would like to learn more about. The results almost always differ from what the health care professionals are teaching. Another study of this sort has been published by Lewis, Stabler, and Welch (2010)....