CHEST Foundation Donor Spotlight March 2019 | Page 6

EVOLUTION OF PATIENT
EDUCATION MATERIALS
The CHEST Foundation’s commitment to providing the highest quality
patient education materials began with our inception in 1996. Our
chest medicine professionals develop clinically accurate and up-to-
date content. Through collaboration with CHEST’s 20,000+ members
and our partner organizations, like the Allergy & Asthma Network,
we bring experts from across the world together to create truly
extraordinary patient education materials.
As patients increasingly
become customers of
healthcare and consumers
of clinical knowledge – our
practices for disseminating
our clinician-created patient
education materials have
adapted to meet growing
patient needs. The tools
have evolved from simple words on a page to comprehensive and
engaging pieces that meet patients wherever they are. One such
tool is our severe asthma shared decision-making toolkit – a tool
designed to help patients communicate with their clinicians about the
severe asthma treatment options that will lead to best management
adherence. These illustrative guides and accessible, interactive toolkits
are excellent
communication
vehicles and
help bridge the
information gaps
between patient
and provider and,
also, patients and
their health-care
teams.
M A RC H 2019
“The “Living Well With COPD
Patient Education Guide” funded
by the CHEST Foundation and
the Allergy and Asthma Network
has been a lifesaver for me and
the interprofessional team of
COPD educators who use it during
Baylor Scott & White’s COPD Camp
Breathless in Dallas, Texas. It provides all the components
we need to teach patients about their disease, how it’s
diagnosed, the treatment options, and self-management
skills. Using pictures, keeping it brief, and using evidence-
based references makes it an excellent teaching tool.
I especially like the Respiratory Inhalers at a Glance poster
that’s included in each guide. It uses pictures of different
medication delivery devices and names of the medications
- very useful in teaching medication management to
patients. With so many different respiratory medications
prescribed today, it’s even difficult for clinicians to keep up.
Both patients and clinicians find it to be very useful, and it is
appropriate for both outpatient and inpatient education.”
—Mary Hart, RRT, MS, FCCP
“The CHEST Foundation’s Living
Well With COPD Guide is an
invaluable asset for improving
the management of our patients
with COPD. We have used the
COPD guide in our inpatient and
outpatient settings and have
attributed some of our successes
with reducing COPD readmissioans to our system’s use of
this guide. It is universally accepted by patients and staff
and its availability in bound and online formats makes it
easy to access for our patients and families.”
—Neil S. Freedman, MD, FCCP