Patient and care provider inclusion in the development of an educational graphic novel for heart transplanted teenagers.

The discrepancies between the priorities of healthcare providers, parents, and teenage heart-transplant-patients illustrate the significance of basing resource-development on input from the target population. We developed the first graphic novel written for teenage heart-transplant-patients with patient input and interdisciplinary cooperation, using the subtlety of a narrative medium as a model for integrating medical content within an appealing, motivational, patient-centered, and age-appropriate resource.