title: Patient Education 2000: take-home messages from this congress.
abstract: A personal review is presented about the conclusions and highlights during the Congress on Patient Education 2000 (14 June 1994, Geneva, Switzerland). Attention is paid to differences between diseases concerning patient education. Further, a summary is presented of the discussion of quality of life, over-optimism, medical information supply, purpose of patient education, the need for discipline and the psychological problems due to wrong patient education.
mesh_terms: D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D017281:Cost of Illness; D006801:Humans; D010353:Patient Education as Topic / Q000379:methods / Q000639:trends; D011788:Quality of Life