The document provides 10 tips for selecting effective videos for patient education libraries, emphasizing the importance of short, clear, and relatable content. It highlights the need for videos that are engaging, contemporary, linguistically appropriate, and focused on 'what to do.' The tips aim to enhance patient understanding and reduce hospital readmissions, which represent significant healthcare costs.

1. 10 Tips for Selecting
Video
for Your Patient
Education Library

2. Education barriers
Visual Learners
Distracted Learners
Language barriers
Talking, handouts and
hurried discharge
Complex Topics instructions can no
longer qualify as
and Jargon
“patient education”

3. "There couldn't be a worse
time, a less receptive time,
to offer people information
than the 11 minutes before
they leave the building,"
Readmissions expert Dr. Eric Coleman of the University of Colorado in Denver.
From USAToday by Lauran Neergaard, Associated Press Published: 02/11/2013

4. Begin Patient Education
at Admission
Every patient interaction can be a
teachable moment using video.

5. Tips to Select
Appropriate
Video for
Your Patient
Education
Library.

6. 1. Look for programs
that are short, less
than 10 minutes,
to combat short
attention spans.

7. 2.
Look for programs that “role
model” desired behaviors that
patients can relate too.
They must see themselves doing
this behavior in real life.

8. 3.
Programs should use clear, direct
and understandable language.
No complex medical jargon.

9. 4.
Look for videos that include a
variety of graphics and
illustrations to explain topics
in simple terms.

10. Hospital readmissions are miserable
for patients, and a huge cost —
more than $17 billion a year in
avoidable Medicare bills alone —
for a nation struggling with the
price of health care. .
From USAToday by Lauran Neergaard, Associated Press Published: 02/11/2013

11. 5. Look for videos that
are interesting or
entertaining.
If the presentation is boring the
patient will lose interest quickly.

12. Avoid videos that move too fast
for the learner to keep up.
6.
Make sure words stay on the screen
long enough to read them all.

13. 7.
Programs should be timely and
contemporary.
Outdated videos have no
credibility.

14. 8.
Look for videos that are
available in multiple
languages appropriate to your
patient population.

15. "Every place is different and
faces different challenges in
terms of improving care
after patients are discharged
from the hospital,"
Goodman said.
From USAToday by Lauran Neergaard, Associated Press Published: 02/11/2013

16. Don’t take a “one size fits all”
approach.
9.
Look for videos that address specific
educational topics and criteria.

17. 10. Look for videos that
emphasize what
“to do” rather than
what not to do.

18. For More Information on
How to Use Video in Patient
Education
Download these Resources:
How to Use Video in Patient Education
How to Flip Patient Education
Free Patient Education Resource Kit
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