Disease relevance of Patient Education

• This depended on three main factors: better dose regulation of warfarin, continuous patient education and early identification of clinical conditions potentially at risk for thrombosis and hemorrhage [1].
• Appropriate precautions and patient education can help limit toxicity from the clonidine patch in children and adolescents [2].
• Such systems may be particularly useful for providing ongoing monitoring and education of patients with chronic illnesses such as COPD [3].
• In conclusion, evidence suggests that an individualized and flexible approach to target Hb values, epoetin beta route and frequency of administration, and patient education/management programmes may be beneficial to patients with ESRD [4].
• METHODS: A patient questionnaire was developed on follow-up, CA125 estimation and patient education in epithelial ovarian cancer and CA125 [5].

Psychiatry related information on Patient Education

• These results are consistent with the current cognitive psychology literature on decision-making processes and could lead to significant improvements in understanding the process by which patients make decisions about taking sumatriptan and, ultimately, could lead to better patient education and more effective headache control [6].
• Evaluation of a rheumatoid arthritis patient education program: impact on knowledge and self-efficacy [7].
• Drug usage evaluation of warfarin sodium: the need for improved patient education [8].
• An internal chart review of warfarin patients revealed a 44 percent complication rate resulting in higher treatment costs, and identified patient noncompliance, access to monitoring, and insufficient patient education as contributing factors [9].
• The initial management of NIDDM should include patient education, dietary counselling and individualized programs of physical activity [10].

High impact information on Patient Education

• Understanding rheumatoid arthritis. Evaluation of a patient education program [11].
• The intervention consisted of patient education about warfarin, training to increase patient participation, self-monitoring of prothrombin time, and guideline-based management of warfarin dosing [12].
• Arthritis patient education. Efficacy, implementation, and financing. ACR/AHPA/AF/NAAB Task Force on Arthritis Patient Education [13].
• The Institute of Medicine emphasized that data on sexually transmitted infections, Pap smear screening, and cervical dysplasia among lesbians were needed to guide clinical practice, policy development, and patient education [14].
• These results strongly support the need for improved labeling with plain-English terminology and allergen warnings as well as the need for diligent education of patients about reading labels [15].

Chemical compound and disease context of Patient Education

• Furthermore, elimination of risk factors such as obesity, smoking and excessive alcohol (ethanol) consumption, as well as patient education, are all important factors in the care of diabetic patients [16].
• In addition to insulin, diet and exercise, great emphasis should be laid on home-monitoring of blood glucose and glycosuria, on patient education and on psychological support both to the children and to their families [17].
• The software will perform an audit that will be fed back during the visit, present pop-up reminders for patients with high blood pressure or cholesterol, and provide a cardiovascular risk calculator and patient education material [18].
• Nurses can prevent thalidomide-associated birth defects through comprehensive patient education and can assist patients in decreasing any anxiety related to potential and actual side effects [19].
• The dose-limiting toxicity of oxaliplatin is neurologic, which can be acute or chronic; this can be prevented or reduced in some cases through patient education [20].

Biological context of Patient Education

• STUDY DESIGN: Under this new program, labeled ISIS (Identify, Screen, Intervene, Support), we educated our new obstetric patients and clinic staff about postpartum depression through patient education classes, departmental lectures, and handouts [21].
• Intensified functional insulin therapy (FIT) helps to establish this goal by an intensive patient education: each patient learns in five small-group sessions how s/he reacts to standardized challenges of glucose homeostasis (e.g. 24 h fasting; physical exercise; various carbohydrate loads) [22].
• Members of the patient-education divisions of the Michigan Society of Healthcare Education and Training and the Great Lakes Chapter of the Society of Public Health Education drafted a model job description and related competencies, using representative position descriptions and a role delineation project as a basis [23].
• Initial treatment of TMD requires relatively simple modalities, such as patient education, adherence to a soft diet, reducing oral habits, self-directed home physical therapy, muscle relaxation, the use of medication, and the proper use of bite plates [24].
• Many of the factors responsible for the delays appear to be preventable by better patient education and counselling, doctors having sharper clinical acumen and skills in NPC diagnosis and the hospital administration having a system of tracking down high risk patients who default [25].

Anatomical context of Patient Education

• In this review, temporomandibular joint syndrome was successfully managed in 75% of 448 cases with conservative treatment consisting of patient education, heat, massage, non-narcotic analgesics, and occlusal splints [26].

Associations of Patient Education with chemical compounds

• In an ideal setting, patient education would address equally blood glucose management and the psychosocial challenges of living with diabetes [27].
• The author does not feel the findings warrant discontinuing the prophylactic usage of amantadine but do highlight the need for physician and patient education about its side effects [28].
• CONCLUSION: These data suggest that the initiation of buspirone therapy in GAD patients who have only recently terminated benzodiazepine treatment should be undertaken cautiously and combined with appropriate patient education [29].
• CONCLUSION: Compliance with sulphasalazine among patients with active, recent onset RA is high, whether formal patient education is followed or not [30].
• With monitoring, patient education, and continued research to further elucidate risk factors, felbamate can be a viable therapeutic agent for patients with epilepsy [31].

Gene context of Patient Education

• Simple management strategies can be used to minimize these reactions, including patient education; tailoring the dose and time of administration of IFN-beta; and prescribing appropriate combinations of acetaminophen, non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, and steroids [32].
• In this chapter, we review the influence of non-medical causes of morbidity on disease outcome, some basic aspects of education and the evidence of the effectiveness of patient education in diseases such as ankylosing spondylitis, systemic lupus erythematosus, rheumatoid arthritis and fibromyalgia syndrome [33].
• We conclude that patient education increased HRQoL and FEV1 among asthmatics, but not among patients with COPD [34].
• Patient education. Behaviour management strategies in ADHD [35].
• Patient education did not seem to change SIC in the COPD group [36].

Analytical, diagnostic and therapeutic context of Patient Education

• Following this a programme of improved diabetes care was organized, involving optimization of insulin regimens, home blood glucose monitoring, patient education and concentration of resources on young insulin-dependent patients [37].
• The effectiveness of adding pharmacologic treatment with clonazepam or cyclobenzaprine to patient education and self-care for the treatment of jaw pain upon awakening: a randomized clinical trial [38].
• In addition to patient education, the pharmacist coordinates the transition to home care, offers in-service education on home parenteral nutrition to nurses and house officers, tests and evaluates the equipment, coauthors a training manual, and edits a quarterly newsletter to patients who are on home parenteral nutrition [39].
• The overall cost of treatment included costs (2001/2002 values; US dollars) of comprehensive medical care, laboratory tests, patient education, drug therapy, home glucose monitoring and adverse events [40].
• DISCUSSION: Patients with RA who develop FHL may benefit from physical therapist management using semirigid foot orthoses, footwear, shoe modifications, and patient education [41].

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