Patient education

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Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1]

Overview

Patient education is the process by which health professionals and others impart information to patients that will alter their health behaviors or improve their health status.[2] Education providers may include: physicians, nurses, psychologists, advocacy groups, special interest groups, and pharmaceutical companies.

See also

• Compliance (medicine)
• Green prescription
• Orem model of nursing