Patient Education: A Practical Approach

by Kate Lorig

This volume is a practical, step-by-step description of the process of conceptualizing, designing, implementing, and evaluating a successful patient education program.Chapters focus on conducting a needs assessment, developing and evaluating a program-based upon that assessment, generating marketing strategies and selecting or preparing patient education materials. The author makes recommendations on how to work effectively with culturally diverse populations and with difficult patients and on how to deal with compliance problems.

264 pages, Paperback

First published December 1, 1991

Reviews

[Tiffany · Rating 2 out of 5]

Holy shit was this boring. But I assume it's one of the best books on the market about patient education that it's good. I read it for my PhD program and whew, nothing. Nothing about it was a pleasure.