Information sessions for outpatients referred to a hospital Nutrition and Dietetic Service for cholesterol lowering advice

Abstract

As a result of the positive outcome of the evaluation, the Cholesterol Information Session is continuing as a service to patients. It provides a facility outside the usual hours of outpatient services and can readily accommodate accompanying people. The information session uses the group format, which may be applicable to other specialist areas of the Nutrition and Dietetic service in the future, such as diabetes management.

Measuring patient assessments of the quality of outpatient care: a systematic review

“…Table 2 describes the methods and materials of the studies included in our review. More than half of them used a cross‐sectional design [24–26,28–30,33,34,37–39,43–45,53]. Two studies (6%) applied a discrete choice conjoint analysis method to assess which aspects of outpatient care were most important to patients [40,48].…”

“…Two studies (6%) applied a discrete choice conjoint analysis method to assess which aspects of outpatient care were most important to patients [40,48]. In most studies, the data were collected using a questionnaire ( n = 19, 54%) [5,24–26,28–30,33,34,40–45,48,49, 52,53]. The tools used for data collection were previously published, modified from previously used tools, or specifically developed for the study in question.…”

“…The tools used for data collection were previously published, modified from previously used tools, or specifically developed for the study in question. Five studies provided no account of how the tool had been developed or of its validity [24,25, 41,42,45]. Study populations of more than 500 patients were reported in 12 studies (35%) [5,22,24–26,28,29,31,32,34,43,52].…”

Effect of an Educational Program (PEGASE) on Cardiovascular Risk in Hypercholesterolaemic Patients

“…However, the type of educational intervention was seldom reported and many educational programs consisted of simple information passively received by the patient in forms of leaflets, videos, postal reminders, telephone calls or advices dispensed by health care providers [40,[45][46][47][48][49]. In contrast, the PEGASE program is a real therapeutic education program, in which patients had to play an active role by identifying their own health status and risk criteria with the help of the Photolanguage® method [50,51], analyzing their lifestyle behaviour and providing a personal plan for the improvement of one or several risk factors.…”

Lifestyle interventions ‐ how joined up are we?

“…In reviewing interventions to promote healthy eating in the general population Roe et al (1997) suggest that effective healthy eating interventions tended to focus on diet only or diet and exercise, in other words individuals can cope with up to two foci of change and achieve successful outcomes. Reid et al (2002) suggests that patients are satisfied with evening dietetic sessions, but are we maximising our resources for promoting lifestyle change?…”