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Patient Education
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EDUCATING YOUR PATIENTS ABOUT LDL-APHERESIS
Physicians have different types of relationships with each of their patients. You
know, for instance, the patient to whom you can give a detailed and somewhat complicated
explanation about a condition or medication, and you also can name the patient with
whom you need to speak in simpler terms. Whichever the case, patient-education materials
can help by expanding on your messages in an easy-to-understand, yet fully descriptive,
written format that the patient can take home.
When it comes to explaining LDL-apheresis therapy to qualified patients, physicians
have an unusually challenging task at hand. Because it is a complex and relatively
unknown treatment, explaining it in detail takes time and patience. Inevitably,
your patient will have a lot of questions during and after your initial conversation
about the treatment. This is where the patient-education handout, Learning
About LDL-Apheresis: A Resource for Patients, can be a useful
tool in your practice.
Learning About LDL-Apheresis: A Resource for Patients
covers a variety of topics that will help educate your patients, from how the procedure
works and how a patient is eligible to its safety and facts about familial hypercholesterolemia
(FH).
By clicking on the link below, you and/or your staff can download this instructive
handout and distribute it to those patients you feel will benefit from the information.
You can download and print (in PDF format)
Learning About LDL-Apheresis: A Resource for Patients
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