Patient Education Handouts
Provide your patients with information, step-by-step care instructions, and/or preventative care education from a trusted source: you. Elite can create your branded patient education handouts to help you improve compliance.
Branded Patient Info Sheets for Better Compliance and Outcomes
Patient compliance is an ongoing challenge for physicians. Providing patient education handouts is one way doctors can boost compliance to improve patient outcomes.
The Problem: According to a paper published in the American Journal of Medicine, approximately 50% of patients with a chronic disease do not benefit from treatment due to poor compliance. There are many possible contributing factors including socio-economic, social, and co-morbidities. However, one of the biggest factors contributing to non-compliance is communication including comprehension.
A professionally designed printed or digital patient info sheet is one way doctors can communicate with their patients so that they:
- Have step-by-step instructions they can refer to every day
- Can review and absorb the information at their own pace
- Don’t have to rely on memory, a particular issue with some patients
- Can put up on their fridge or other location for easy reference
- Show their caregivers the care plan
- Are less likely to follow misinformation from “Dr. Google” that can reduce compliance and/or increase anxiety
Plus, patient information sheets can save you time during the patient encounter. Simply give the patient an overview of their care plan and present the patient care instructions rather than painstakingly going over every single point while they slowly write it down.
Patient education handouts represent an easy way for you to engage with your patients, boost treatment plan compliance (including medications), and improve your patient outcomes.
Branded Patient Education Handouts:
- Improve patient compliance, outcomes, and satisfaction
- Reduce trips to the Emergency Room
- Provide patients with a clear care/treatment plan to follow
- Reduce the risk of non-compliance due to miscommunication or lack of comprehension
- Help caregivers and patients get on the same page
Contact us right now or call 800-977-8973 | 215-491-0400 to find out more.
Elite Helps You Design, Create, Print, and Distribute Your Patient Info Sheet
Write – Our professional medical writer can help you hone your messaging, communicating complex medical ideas into simple terms your patient will understand.
Design – We’ll design your one-page brochure incorporating your logo, your contact info, optional QR code, images as needed, and everything needed to create a stunning and functional patient education handout.
Print – We’ll send the final version to a designated printer in your area (if needed), or set up the sheet for printing on your own printer.
PDF Creation – We’ll also create a PDF that you can add to your website or email to patients.
Website Management – We can add to your website as a downloadable PDF if needed.
Other Services – Elite Office Solutions can also help with other services including transcription, virtual assistant, virtual scribe, and marketing services.
Do Patient Education Handouts Work?
The short answer is: Yes.
According to the same paper cited above, “Patient education has been demonstrated to improve medication compliance and persistence across a broad range of conditions and disease severity and should be considered an integral part of any disease management program.”
Patient education handouts, patient info sheets, and patient instruction sheets are great ways to provide your patients with home care instructions. They are particularly useful for managing chronic diseases, recovering after an injury, or providing a treatment plan during an illness.
You can provide any number of customized care plans and info sheets including:
- Step-by-step instructions for daily care
- Information on their condition and clear instructions on what can help
- Preventative healthcare information
- Information on what to expect
- Indicators for when to call your office, when to seek urgent/emergency care, etc.
- Any type of care instructions, prevention tips, exercise routines, and more
Best of all, you are providing your patients with solid, vetted information from a trusted source: you.
Brand Your Patient Education Handouts for Added Benefits
Professionally designed patient education handouts provide other advantages to your practice versus handwritten notes or a printed Word doc:
- Inspires trust – People are more likely to trust a handout (and by extension, the clinician) when it is well designed and “official” looking.
- Promotes your practice – Branded information sheets including your logo and contact info can help spread the word.
- Increases patient satisfaction – Patients feel like your clinic is taking care of them better with customized info sheets.
How to Get Branded Patient Education Handouts from Elite Office Solutions
Getting branded patient education handouts is easy when you work with Elite Office Solutions:
- You decide what topics to cover for patient info or we can help you brainstorm ideas during a meeting. (Chances are, you have ideas already.)
- You provide that information to Elite Office Solutions via a written document or during a meeting.
- We specialize in “translating” medical language to a Grade 8 reading level to improve communication and comprehension.
- We will also design a one-page design with your logo, contact info, and other information
- We’ll tweak as needed during the review phase
- We’ll send you the final 8.5×11 PDF that you can use digitally, print, or both, depending on your practice and the needs of your patients
Some other notes:
- You can suggest that they keep the patient education handout on the fridge, on the bathroom wall, or with their medications for easy reference and improved compliance.
- One-pagers work best, but sometimes they are not suitable for more complex care plans. We can provide you with multi-page documents as needed.
- You can offer digital copies such as a PDF sent to their email address, a printed copy they can take with them, or both.
- You can combine print and digital, providing basic info on the patient education handout while linking to more detailed information online as necessary. QR codes are an easy way to help people jump to that information using their phones.
3 Key Tips for Patient Brochures
- Keep it straightforward – step-by-step instructions where possible
- Keep is short – highlight the “need to know” instead of the “nice to know”
- Keep it simple – remember, medical jargon confuses things
We can help you hone your messaging and “translate” complex medical terms your patients will understand with the help of a professional medical writer.
Contact Elite Office Solutions to Learn More
Have an idea for some patient education handouts you’d like to create? Want more information about how info sheets can help you and your practice? Ready to start developing your own customized patient flyers? Contact Elite Office Solutions via our email form or call 800-977-8973|215-491-0400 right now.
Elite will help you boost patient compliance, patient satisfaction, and patient outcomes!