Editorial & Opinion
Improving surgical patient education materials using informational design with visual elements.
| العنوان: | Improving surgical patient education materials using informational design with visual elements. |
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| المؤلفون: | Duong TA; The University of Alabama at Birmingham Heersink School of Medicine, United States., Gleason LT; The University of Alabama at Birmingham, Department of Surgery, United States., Kichler K; The University of Alabama at Birmingham Heersink School of Medicine, United States., Kaplan ER; The University of Alabama at Birmingham Heersink School of Medicine, United States., Shao CC; The University of Alabama at Birmingham, Department of Surgery, United States., Dos Santos Marques IC; The University of Alabama at Birmingham, Department of Surgery, United States., Chen CS; The University of Alabama at Birmingham, Department of Surgery, United States., Smith B; The University of Alabama at Birmingham, Department of Surgery, United States., Morris MS; The University of Alabama at Birmingham, Department of Surgery, United States; The University of Alabama at Birmingham, Division of Gastrointestinal Surgery, United States., Hollis RH; The University of Alabama at Birmingham, Department of Surgery, United States; The University of Alabama at Birmingham, Division of Gastrointestinal Surgery, United States., Chu DI; The University of Alabama at Birmingham, Department of Surgery, United States; The University of Alabama at Birmingham, Division of Gastrointestinal Surgery, United States. Electronic address: dchu@uabmc.edu. |
| المصدر: | American journal of surgery [Am J Surg] 2022 Dec; Vol. 224 (6), pp. 1497-1500. Date of Electronic Publication: 2022 Aug 28. |
| نوع المنشور: | Editorial |
| اللغة: | English |
| بيانات الدورية: | Publisher: Excerpta Medica Country of Publication: United States NLM ID: 0370473 Publication Model: Print-Electronic Cited Medium: Internet ISSN: 1879-1883 (Electronic) Linking ISSN: 00029610 NLM ISO Abbreviation: Am J Surg Subsets: MEDLINE |
| أسماء مطبوعة: | Publication: Belle Mead, NJ : Excerpta Medica Original Publication: New York. |
| مواضيع طبية MeSH: | Comprehension* , Health Literacy*, Humans ; Patient Education as Topic ; Teaching Materials ; Educational Status ; Internet |
| مستخلص: | Patient education materials (PEMs) serve as a foundation for educating patients and families across all surgical fields but are often not understandable. The National Institute of Health (NIH) recommends that PEMs be written at a grade 6-7 reading level; however, most current materials exceed that measure. 3 Lack of understandable and appropriate surgical PEMs compounds the difficulties that low health literacy patients face with resultant poor surgical outcomes. 2 , 3 The challenge for surgeons is to adequately educate patients pre-operatively and post-operatively on the complexities of surgery. Another challenge is to compact decades of education and training into an easy-to-understand medium for patients. To address this challenge, many physicians have utilized visual aids to improve PEM efficacy. While visual aids are a critical piece of education materials, they must be designed intentionally to be effective. The most important consideration is that the PEM communicates the information clearly to users. With this in mind, we created a framework for productive utilization of visual aids by integrating the C.A.R.P. graphic design technique into an existing surgical PEM to enhance communication and understandability. Competing Interests: Declaration of competing interest Circumstances create a conflict of interest when an individual has an opportunity to affect CME content about products or services of a commercial interest with which he/she has a financial relationship. (Copyright © 2022 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.) |
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| معلومات مُعتمدة: | T32 CA229102 United States CA NCI NIH HHS |
| تواريخ الأحداث: | Date Created: 20220917 Date Completed: 20221216 Latest Revision: 20230901 |
| رمز التحديث: | 20240628 |
| مُعرف محوري في PubMed: | PMC10468258 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.amjsurg.2022.08.009 |
| PMID: | 36115704 |
| قاعدة البيانات: | MEDLINE |
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| DOI: | 10.1016/j.amjsurg.2022.08.009 |