For above 10 years now, AFP has pub...

For above 10 years now, AFP has published health information for you to photocopy and hand not at home to your patients. Most of these patient information handouts accompany the clinical review articles of AFP and are written by the agency of the same authors. Authors are given guidelines to help them focus in succession information that will help patients understand and manage their conditions.

The patient information handouts in AFP travel through a review and edit by means of our medical editors and review through a panel of family physician lords Once the medical content has been evaluated, the patient information handout is tailored to the appropriate reading even by the journal's professional editing staff. Research has shown that, upon average, patients read at the sixth or seventh grade plain and that's the target reading flush for AFP's handouts.

one time AFP's patient information handouts are published, they are made available online along with the pause of the journal content, at www.aafp.org/afp. Many of AFP's handouts are stored and updated regularly forward the official patient information Web site of the American Academy of Family Physicians, at familydoctor.org.

AFP's patient information handouts may also be tailored and updated as part of a collection upon a specific topic. This issue has three patient information handouts forward topics in women's health (starting onward page 2369): "Endometrial Cancer," "Pap Smears: When Yours Is Slightly Abnormal," and "Ovarian Cyst"

You might want to apply the mind for some of these patient information collections that were published in newly come issues:

* Tips in succession weight loss (January 1, 2003)

* Exercising for better health (January 15 2003)

* Respiratory infections (February 15 2003)

* Memory los and dementia (March 1 2003)

* Managing shoulder puzzles (March 15, 2003)

* Contraception (April 1 2003)

* Coronary artery disease (April 15 2003)

If you have topics to beseech for other patient information collections or suggestions to make AFP's patient information handouts or patient information collections more helpful, we would delight in to hear from you. You may write down your imaginations on the feedback card in this issue, located in the "Clinical Quiz" section subordinate to the answer card (see page 2257) You can also write to us at afpedit@aafp.org or give us a call (800-274-2237 ext 5108)

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