Feasibility of tailored patient education

Authoring and Generation of Tailored Preoperative Patient Education Materials

Patient Education Materials Chrysanne Di Marco1, Peter Bray2, Dominic Covvey1, Don Cowan1, Vic Di Ciccio1, Eduard Hovy3, Joan Lipa2, and Cathy Yang1 1 University of Waterloo Waterloo, Ontario, Canada [email protected] 2 Division of Plastic Surgery, Department of Surgery and Department of Surgical Oncology, University Health Network, University of Toronto Toronto, Ontario, Canada 3 Informati...

Patient-tailored acetylcysteine administration.

Acetylcysteine is a familiar friend of emergency physicians, intensivists, and medical toxicologists. There are 2 broad categories of acetaminophen toxicity that receive acetylcysteine therapy: acute single overdose ingestion and repeated supratherapeutic (“chronic”) ingestion. Since the 1970s, we have used acetylcysteine to reduce liver injury and death in patients with an acute overdose inges...

Long-term effectiveness of computer-generated tailored patient education on benzodiazepines: a randomized controlled trial.

AIMS Chronic benzodiazepine use is highly prevalent and is associated with a variety of negative health consequences. The present study examined the long-term effectiveness of a tailored patient education intervention on benzodiazepine use. DESIGN A randomized controlled trial was conducted comprising three arms, comparing (i) a single tailored intervention; (ii) a multiple tailored intervent...

Choosing patient-tailored hemodynamic monitoring

Challenges for Tailored Messaging in Health Education

It is a health education truism that instructional material will be more effective when audience characteristics are taken into account at the outset of program development. One strategy for disseminating relevant health information to individuals is known as “tailored messaging,” which accounts for intra-individual information processing needs. This customized approach to health communication ...