Patient education as the basis for diabetes care in clinical practice and research
1985; Springer Science+Business Media; Volume: 28; Issue: 8 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1007/bf00281995
ISSN1432-0428
AutoresJ P Assal, Ingrid Mühlhauser, A Pernet, R Gfeller, Viktor Jörgens, Michael Berger,
Tópico(s)Metabolism, Diabetes, and Cancer
ResumoDespite the obvious improvements made in the field of diabetes therapy during this century [1] the quality of diabetes care has, in general, remained poor.The widespread failure to acknowledge the impact of patient education appears to evolve as the primary reason for this unsatisfactory situation.Despite the firm and well founded recommendations put forward by some of the pioneers of modem diabetology, e.g.Drs.E.P.Joslin and R.D. Lawrence in the 1920s, it has taken almost 50 years for the beneficial effects of patient education to have finally and unequivocally been proven.The recently developed strategies for a global approach to diabetes therapy which combines biomedical, psychosocial and educational elements represents an exemplary therapeutic model for the care of many chronic diseases.
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