title: [Evidence-based treatment and education programs--evaluation of complex interventions].
abstract: Patient education and treatment programmes are complex interventions that require a multiphased stepwise evaluation. The continuum of increasing evidence of effectiveness of structured treatment and teaching programmes for diabetes and hypertension as implemented in Germany is presented, and the indispensable components of the program and the conditions of their effective implementation are described.
authors.affiliation: Universität Hamburg, IGTW-Gesundheit, Hamburg. Ingrid_Muehlhauser@uni-hamburg.de
authors.forename: Ingrid
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Mühlhauser
mesh_terms: D004501:Education, Medical; D019317:Evidence-Based Medicine / Q000193:education*; D006801:Humans; D013663:Teaching / Q000379:methods*