title: Strategies for using patient instruction sheets.
abstract: Patient instruction sheets are a patient pleasing practice tool, especially if used creatively before seeing patients, to augment telephone conversations, and to detail postoperative care. Customizing, availability, and other strategies for optimal use of patient instruction sheets are discussed. Although patient instruction sheets are significant time savers, their updating, customizing, and effective use requires a small investment of physician time and effort.
authors.affiliation: Department of Dermatology, University of California San Francisco.
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Epstein
mesh_terms: D005568:Forms and Records Control; D006801:Humans; D010174:Pamphlets; D010353:Patient Education as Topic / Q000379:methods*; D010817:Physician-Patient Relations; D011182:Postoperative Care; D012871:Skin Diseases; D013689:Telephone