Dr. Hossain: Decision handout an invaluable tool to support clinician-patient conversations and help overcome health literacy, language barriers.
Healthy Living
How to Keep Your Heart Healthy
Healthy habits throughout life – eating better, moving more, maintaining a healthy weight, and not smoking – are important steps to protect your heart. You also need to keep an eye on health conditions that make heart disease more likely. These include diabetes, high blood pressure and high cholesterol.
Use this resource to learn more about heart-healthy habits.
Get Vaccinated
Staying up to date with your vaccines is an important part of heart-healthy living. Protect your heart with healthy habits, such as eating well, being active, not smoking, getting good sleep, taking your heart medicines – and getting vaccinated!
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Decision Aid Enhances Patient-Clinician Relationship Dr. Ahmed: Three cases illustrate the importance of communication skills in health care and the role of decision tools in facilitating treatment discussions.
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Empower Patients to Lead Conversations About Their Care Dr. Erickson: Being open to a give-and-take of information helps patients make choices that align with their values and preferences.
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Helping patients with AFib and high stroke risk find the right treatment Dr. Shabbir: Tools support discussions to ensure patients understand their risk.
