The Patient First: Honing Health Literacy for Cancer Patients

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Identifier 034_Honing-Health-Literacy-IHA_EBPF2017
Title The Patient First: Honing Health Literacy for Cancer Patients
Creator Vehar, Meredith; Fouts, Diane; Yancey, Jeff; Branson, Donna; Childress, Susan
Subject Evidence-Based Practice; Neoplasms; Patient Participation; Cancer Survivors; Consumer Health Information; Patient Education as Topic; Health Literacy; Patient Portals; Culturally Competent Care; Signs and Symptoms; Disease Management; Poster
Description Communicating health information is a challenge, no matter the patient. In stressful situations such as a cancer diagnosis, educating patients about their disease, treatment, symptom management, and available resources adds responsibility. Surveying patients to ensure material is accessible and applicable, Verifying factsheets meet care provider needs, Assessing effects on clinical outcomes, patient compliance, and patient satisfaction, Translating the entire custom library into Spanish and identifying other language needs, Applying a similar health literacy review process to all public-facing patient website content.
Relation is Part of Evidence Based Practice Posters - 2017
Publisher Spencer S. Eccles Health Sciences Library, University of Utah
Date Digital 2017
Date 2017
Type Text
Format application/pdf
Language eng
ARK ark:/87278/s6158vhn
Setname ehsl_ebp
ID 1399403
Reference URL https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6158vhn
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