Do too many of your patients find it difficult to cooperate during treatment?  Do you have a specific program in place to deal with this?  Do you have at least one clinical team member properly trained to make that program a success?  If not, maybe this pearl can help.

In general, there are three types of patients:

1) the many who naturally cooperate

2) the few who are naturally uncooperative

3) those who would cooperate if they knew WHY, HOW and WHEN.

You will have limited success with the uncooperative patients, typically ending up with a compromised or terminated treatment.

You can have much greater success with those who would cooperate if they knew how.  These are the patients who want help; and if you don’t give them enough, you will lose them and/or waste your resources and reputation.

The best way to help all of your patients is to have a comprehensive patient training program to assure their cooperation.

To have an effective Patient Cooperation Program you need:

1) a Patient Trainer (PT) to do the patient training

2) a Patient Training Program to help the patient

3) a Program to Train the Patient Trainer.

See the attached PDF for such a program.