Latest Patient Education Resources - American Medical Association Stay on top of the latest developments related to patient education Browse the AMA’s patient education resources, full of information and tools that physicians can share with their patients, including educational handouts for patients and other patient education materials
What doctors wish patients knew about atrial fibrillation The AMA’s What Doctors Wish Patients Knew™ series gives physicians a platform to share what they want patients to understand about today’s health care headlines In this installment, Paari Dominic, MBBS, MPH, a cardiac electrophysiologist and associate professor of internal and cardiovascular medicine at University of Iowa Health Care
What doctors wish patients knew about sciatica In this installment, Kevin Taliaferro, MD, an orthopaedic surgeon at Henry Ford Health, took time to discuss what patients need to know about sciatica Henry Ford Health is a member of the AMA Health System Program , which provides enterprise solutions to equip leadership, physicians and care teams with resources to help drive the future of
What doctors wish patients knew about cancer screening and prevention Most patients are diagnosed at a far less treatable, later stage of the disease And with about 20% of lung cancer deaths preventable, evidence-based screening recommendations for high-risk patients offer the best hope to catch the disease early and provide the best chance for effective treatment A medical oncologist shares more
What doctors wish patients knew about myocarditis The AMA’s What Doctors Wish Patients Knew™ series gives physicians a platform to share what they want patients to understand about today’s health care headlines In this installment, Lauren Weber, MD, a cardiologist at Confluence Health Hospital in Wenatchee, Washington, took the time to share what patients should know about myocarditis
What doctors wish patients knew about improving eye health “Patients with diabetes are at much greater risk and need to have annual eye checkups regardless of age,” Dr Aizuss said That’s “because you can get diabetic eye disease, leaky blood vessels in the retina, which when caught early can be dealt with to prevent later problems ”
What doctors wish patients knew about tendinitis The AMA’s What Doctors Wish Patients Knew™ series gives physicians a platform to share what they want patients to understand about today’s health care headlines In this installment, George C Umeh, MD , a sports medicine physician at Bayhealth Orthopaedics in Milford, Delaware, took the time to discuss what patients should know about
What doctors wish patients knew about peripheral artery disease The AMA’s What Doctors Wish Patients Knew™ series gives physicians a platform to share what they want patients to understand about today’s health care headlines In this installment, Charles C Leithead, MD, a vascular surgeon at Ochsner Health in New Orleans and Gretna, Louisiana, discusses what to know about peripheral artery disease
Sharpen your blood pressure skills to improve patient outcomes During this module, you will focus on the importance of SMBP and be able to explain the seven steps for identifying and training patients to accurately perform and document their BP readings AMA MAP™ Hypertension, an evidence-based quality improvement program that provides a clear path to significant, sustained improvements in BP control
Make sure health AI works for patients and physicians “With the proliferation of augmented intelligence tools in clinical care, we must push for greater transparency and oversight so physicians can feel more confident that the clinical tools they use are safe, based on sound science, and can be discussed appropriately with their patients when making shared decisions about their health care