Patient education, empowerment and self-care: implementation of a formal education program

• In: Academic Pharmacy Section - Session Short Oral Presentations on Thursday, 8 September 2005, 9:00-10:30
• At: Cairo (Egypt) (2005)
• Type: Presentations + Posters
• By: DAHDAL, Wafa (Midwestern University, Chicago College of Pharmacy, Downers Grove, United States of America)
• Abstract:

  As pharmacists strive to provide quality patient care, patient education is an important role as described by the World Health Organization. The correlation between patients’ education level and self-care behaviors is well documented. Heart failure (HF) is a chronic disease of the elderly and is the most frequent discharge diagnosis in patients 65

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