BONUS CD-ROM features patient sheets in both English and Latin American Spanish allowing readers to customize and print out sheets from their computer!
The new edition of this popular patient teaching tool improves compliance, speeds recovery, and increases understanding. Hundreds of fact sheets help patients understand what their illness is, how it will affect their regular routine, and when to call a doctor. Readers can simply tear out the appropriate pages, photocopy them, and distribute them to patients when discussing follow-up care.
- Includes descriptions of each illness, including frequent signs and symptoms, possible causes, risks, preventive measures, expected outcomes, possible complications, and treatments.
- Covers over 500 topics on problems both small (indigestion) and large (congestive heart failure).
- Features an organization by topic for ease of use.
- Includes a FREE Windows® and Macintosh® compatible CD-ROM - now featuring Latin American Spanish and English instructions - lets you personalize or customize instruction sheets on your computer and print them out. It also contains a bonus audio Latin American Spanish and English pronunciation guide.
- Provides instructions for 43 new topics, with revisions and updates to all other over 450 patient instruction sheets, reflecting the latest therapeutic information.
- Includes extra space on each sheet that allows users to tailor instructions to each patient’s needs.
- Five all-new appendices bring you the latest information on dietary supplements • buying prescription drugs online • safe use of prescription drugs • adult screening tests and immunizations • and Walking exercise and fitness.
- Provides instructions for 43 new topics, with revisions and updates to all other over 450 patient instruction sheets, reflecting the latest therapeutic information.
- A Windows® and Macintosh® compatible CD-ROM – now featuring Latin American Spanish and English instructions – lets you personalize or customize instruction sheets on your computer and print them out
Help your patients understand their illness with over 500 patient instruction fact sheets on topics from acne to zinc deficiency