Patient Education Using Compact Disc Interactive Technol

The main objective of this project is to develop and test a software package, featuring compact dis(CD-I ) technology, that will be used to educate patients about cardiac catheterization and coronaryimprove the patients' ability to give an informed consent for these procedures. Now that patients arin their health care decisions, high quality patient education has become increasingly important. CDsuited to education because it can be used to develop an audiovisual presentation that allows for paway, highly individualized independent instruction is provided to a population with widely disparateneeds. Hard copies can be printed and reviewed with the heath care provider upon completion of the pmore efficient use of patient conference time. Phase I of this project will develop and field test acompact disc (CD-ROM) to fully inform patients who are referred for catheterization procedures. The(1) develop the interactive program design and produce a CD-ROM, and (2) field test the prototype. Iprototype will be further developed and refined.