Design and implementation of a patient passport in a pediatric cardiology clinic

Patient Passport for Pediatric Acute Recurrent and Chronic Pancreatitis

“…Because of the complex nature of the problem of pancreatitis in children, the need to educate primary medical responders who may not be familiar with current recommendations for managing such patients, and concerns about administering opioids and pain medications in children, a need has developed to create an informative medical document provided by a patient's primary gastroenterologist that patients and families use to inform treating clinicians who may not be familiar with their disease. ''Patient Passports'' have been developed to facilitate communication between healthcare providers and increase patient engagement in their care in order to improve health care execution, clinical outcomes, and patient satisfaction (6,7).…”