Abstracts by key term: Empowerment
The patient empowerment approach to training chronically ill people aims to help patients gain more autonomy in the care of their illness and improve their self-management skills. Based on this philosophy, the European Health Care Foundation has developed a training and care concept for healthcare professionals and chronically ill people. The core is a training portal for standardized coach training and care for patients with type 2 diabetes. The training concept was tested in a multicenter prospective study in German pharmacies. The Caoches and the patients rated the training material as good or very good, patients were able to manage their illness better through the training and 70% of the diabetes patients improved their HbA1c value by a mean of 0.7%
01.04.2010
Patient coaching as an innovative service in healthcare serves the purpose of promoting therapy adherence (compliance, adherence), active participation and self-management of patients in overcoming their illness, taking into account individual preferences. In this episode, examples are given of the efficiency reserves that can be expected from patient coaching compared to the effects of drug discount agreements, and that some health insurance companies have integrated patient coaching programs into their care management as pilot projects. A classification matrix is presented for more transparency of coaching programs. In addition, numerous open questions are addressed, which could be answered by appropriate health services research.
01.10.2009
Patient coaching as an innovative service in the healthcare system serves the purpose of promoting compliance, adherence, active participation and self-management of patients in coping with their illness, taking individual preferences into account. In this article, based on a definition of patient coaching, its necessity is derived from the high non-compliance or non-adherence rate, particularly among chronically ill and multimorbid patients. These are patients who require approximately 4/5 of all services provided by the health system. Compliance and adherence are described in terms of their importance as descriptive markers for the quality of patient cooperation in the treatment process. It should be noted that they should also be questioned with regard to their different causes (e.g. system-related, communication-related, individual/preference-related) so that a targeted and promising intervention can result in individual cases.