Teaching patients with newly diagnosed diabetes.
Diabetes mellitus is a condition with potentially serious complications, which may be preventable with appropriate patient teaching. Patient teaching for the group in this study appears to have failed adequately to meet their needs. Health-care professionals have a responsibility to prepare patient teaching according to patients' perceived needs rather than simply those prescribed by carers.
Lowry
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Leeds Metropolitan University.
D000328:Adult; D048909:Diabetes Complications; D003920:Diabetes Mellitus / Q000451:nursing* / Q000523:psychology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D015404:Nursing Methodology Research; D010353:Patient Education as Topic; D017060:Patient Satisfaction