title: Designing a comprehensive hospital-wide patient education program.
abstract: Patient education is an integral part of any hospital admission. This article describes the development of a hospital-wide program which includes the assessment of patient education needs, the role of the unit patient educators, the use of free patient education television channels, the role of the patient/family education committee, the documentation of patient education, and the orientation of health professionals to the system. Mechanisms to deal with the non-English or limited-English-speaking patients are also described.
authors.affiliation: Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, USA. duffymm@musc.edu
authors.forename: M M
authors.initials: MM
authors.lastname: Duffy
mesh_terms: D005190:Family; D006761:Hospitals; D006801:Humans; D020407:Internet; D007802:Language; D010353:Patient Education as Topic; D010361:Patients; D016730:Program Development; D013690:Television