At Victory pharmacy, we believe that education is an important part of helping you to manage your healthcare. Understanding a condition or disease process as well as treatment options can help you achieve a better outcome. An informed and educated patient can actively participate in his or her own treatment.
The benefits of patient education include:
- Increasing the patient’s ability to cope with and manage his or her health
- Facilitating understandings of health statuses, diagnosis and treatment options, and consequences of care for patients and their families
- Empowering patients to make decisions related to their care
- Increasing patients’ potential to follow a healthcare plan
- Helping patients learn healthier behaviors
- Promoting recovery and improved function
- Increasing patient confidence in his or herself care
- Decreasing treatment complications
These are just a few valid healthcare information sites we can recommend:
- Medline Plus
- National Institutes of Health
- Drugs.com
- Drug interaction checker
- Womenshealth.gov
- WebMD
- HopkinsMedicine.org
- MayoClinic.org
- UptoDate.com
- Medivizor.com
- National Association of Healthcare Advocacy Consultants
- The Alliance of Professional Health Advocates