Therapeutic patient education is defined as helping patients acquire or maintain the competences they need to manage as well as possible their lives with a chronic disease.These guidleines concern patient education for adults and adolescents asthmatics.
The topics of the guidelines are:
- Benefit of patient education in the management of asthma
- Place of patient education in the management of asthma
- Approach to education of patients with asthma
- Consistent information for continuity of care
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