Patient education on back care

Individual patient education for low back pain.

BACKGROUND While many different types of patient education are widely used, the effect of individual patient education for low-back pain (LBP) has not yet been systematically reviewed. OBJECTIVES To determine whether individual patient education is effective in the treatment of non-specific low-back pain and which type is most effective. SEARCH STRATEGY A computerized literature search of M...

Barriers to Patient Education in Clinical Care Viewpoints of Nurses

Introduction: Patient education is considered as a standard in quality of nursing care. It is counted as an accrediting criterion for the organizations that provide health services. Meanwhile, there are evidences indicating the failure in this area. As a result, this study aimed to determine barriers to patient education in managerial, individual care-giving, as well as patients and caregivers ...

Mission Impossible? Putting the Patient Back in Patient Care

Impact of Physician Asthma Care Education on patient outcomes.

OBJECTIVE We evaluated the effectiveness of a continuing medical education program, Physician Asthma Care Education, in improving pediatricians' asthma therapeutic and communication skills and patients' health care utilization for asthma. METHODS We conducted a randomized trial in 10 regions in the United States. Primary care providers were recruited and randomly assigned by site to receive t...

Reducing readmissions using teach-back: enhancing patient and family education.

This article describes a quality improvement initiative, implemented by a patient education workgroup within a tertiary Magnet® facility. The project focused on the association between inadequate care transitions in patients with heart failure and subsequent costly readmissions. The teach-back initiative was piloted with patients hospitalized with heart failure, because of this population's hig...