Strengthen patient education, carry out health education, including medical institutions to actively carry out health education for patients and caregivers, and popularize knowledge of infection prevention and control in COVID-19.

Guide the correct implementation of hand hygiene, respiratory hygiene and cough etiquette, keep a safe social distance and avoid crowd gathering.

When conditions permit, encourage patients in the treatment or rehabilitation period to exercise reasonably at an early stage.

To strengthen patient education and carry out publicity refers to:

1. Improve patient compliance: Through health education for patients, patients can master necessary health knowledge, correctly understand diseases and better cooperate with treatment, thus improving their medical compliance.

2. Psychotherapy: It can eliminate or alleviate the emotional reactions such as fear, mental tension, anxiety, pessimism and disappointment caused by ignorance of the disease, and enhance your confidence in fighting the disease.

3. It is a kind of treatment: it can change the bad behavior and lifestyle related to the disease, so as to really eliminate the root cause of the disease.

4. Close doctor-patient relationship: not only let them accept treatment voluntarily, but also let them know the process and danger of treatment, thus enhancing patients' understanding and alleviating medical disputes.

5. Reduce medical costs