Family involvement, patient engagement and benefits of patient education interventions

A major concern in patient education and in healthcare in general is to involve and engage patients and their relatives and significant others in prevention, treatment, rehabilitation and care. In today ’s healthcare scene, patients are not any more passive, individual recipients of care. In the current issue of PEC we publish a number of review articles which in different ways concern family involvement, patient engagement and interventions in the field of patient education.
Source: Patient Education and Counseling - Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Tags: From the Editor Source Type: research