Games: a way to give laboratory values meaning.
Through the use of gaming techniques patients may acquire a better understanding of the significance of serum laboratory values and their relationships to the disease process and treatment regimen. Games provide practitioners with an alternative teaching strategy that may be used to reinforce learning and positively change health beliefs and behaviors that will ultimately promote compliance with the treatment regimen.
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D005716:Game Theory; D006801:Humans; D007676:Kidney Failure, Chronic / Q000451:nursing; D010349:Patient Compliance; D010353:Patient Education as Topic / Q000379:methods*; D015397:Program Evaluation