title: [Patient education: quality criteria in its implementation].
abstract: Patient education has become increasingly important in medical rehabilitation in recent years. While educational programmes are often conducted under ideal circumstances during the developmental process, basic conditions may be less favourable in routine application on a daily basis. Therefore, quality requirements of patient education are needed. We have previously defined quality requirements regarding the conception of educational programmes and now propose quality criteria concerning the execution of patient education, with particular attention to inpatient medical rehabilitation of adult patients. In this report, both the procedure and the results of the process of criteria development are described. We obtained patient education experts' opinions regarding both dimensions and criteria of educational quality using the Delphi technique, which included a consensus group discussion. Final agreement was reached for eleven dimensions assessed with 59 criteria, covering the following domains: basic conditions of patient education; necessary qualifications of instructors; integration of patient education into the rehabilitation process; and quality management. The quality criteria proposed aim to increase the awareness of quality requirements and to provide a tool for improving the quality of patient education in medical rehabilitation.
authors.affiliation: Universität Würzburg, Institut für Psychotherapie und Medizinische Psychologie, Arbeitsbereich Rehabilitationswissenschaften. stroebl@uni-wuerzburg.de
authors.forename: V
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Ströbl
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Küffner
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Müller
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Reusch
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Vogel
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Faller
mesh_terms: D005858:Germany; D010353:Patient Education as Topic / Q000592:standards*; D017410:Practice Guidelines as Topic; D012046:Rehabilitation / Q000193:education* / Q000458:organization & administration*