title: [Patient education: the way for long-term follow up].
abstract: Therapeutic education is now perfectly integrated in caring and medicine. Its field of application is primarily in chronic diseases for the acquisition of competences in the management of treatments, in co-operation with health professionals. In ambulatory medicine, patients and health professionals are currently running up against the difficulties of the long-term follow-up with its part of uncertainty, lassitude and economic pressure. EBM and the various models of health psychology light us only partially the way. A new type of reflexive step is emerging. This way of thinking should place in its center the concept of therapeutic relation: between science and being. We summarize here our reflexive process in the course of an interdisciplinary team gathering social sciences, art and medicine.
authors.affiliation: Service d'endocrinologie, diabétologie et métabolisme, CHUV, 1011 Lausanne. Juan.Ruiz@chuv.ch
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Ruiz
mesh_terms: D003266:Continuity of Patient Care; D019317:Evidence-Based Medicine; D006801:Humans; D010353:Patient Education as Topic