Patient education

A Radiographer explains an x-ray to a coal miner participating in screening. Patient education can include explaining the results of diagnostic tests.

Patient education is a planned interactive learning process designed to support and enable expert patients[1] to manage their life with a disease and/or optimise their health and well-being.[2][3]

  1. ^ Cordier JF (2014). "The expert patient: towards a novel definition". Eur Respir J. 44 (4): 853–7. doi:10.1183/09031936.00027414. PMID 25271227. S2CID 315598. Retrieved 31 March 2022.
  2. ^ "iv. Patient Education and Counseling for Prevention". Archived from the original on April 21, 2014.
  3. ^ Zangi, Heidi A.; Ndosi, Mwidimi; Adams, Jo; Andersen, Lena; Bode, Christina; Boström, Carina; van Eijk-Hustings, Yvonne; Gossec, Laure; Korandová, Jana; Mendes, Gabriel; Niedermann, Karin (June 2015). "EULAR recommendations for patient education for people with inflammatory arthritis". Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases. 74 (6): 954–962. doi:10.1136/annrheumdis-2014-206807. hdl:11475/7508. ISSN 1468-2060. PMID 25735643. S2CID 2370392.

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