• Patient Educ Couns · May 2005

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    Patient empowerment: reflections on the challenge of fostering the adoption of a new paradigm.

    • Robert M Anderson and Martha M Funnell.
    • Department of Medical Education, The Michigan Diabetes Research and Training Center, The University of Michigan Medical School, 1500 E. Medical Ctr. Dr., 0201 Towsley Center, Room G-1111, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-0201, USA. boba@umich.edu
    • Patient Educ Couns. 2005 May 1;57(2):153-7.

    AbstractDiabetes is a self-managed illness in which the decisions most affecting the health and well being of patients are made by the patients themselves. Many of these decisions involve routine activities of daily living (e.g., nutrition, physical activity). Effective diabetes care requires patients and health care professionals to collaborate in the development of self-management plans that integrate the clinical expertise of health care professionals with the concerns, priorities and resources of the patient. Collaborative diabetes care requires a new "empowerment" paradigm that involves a fundamental redefinition of roles and relationships of health care professionals and patients. The challenges of fostering the adoption of a new paradigm differ substantially from those associated with the introduction of new technology. Those challenges are discussed in this paper.

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