title: [Therapeutic education: a solution to reduce therapeutic inertia and noncompliance].
abstract: Therapeutic education (TPE) aims to enable the patient suffering from a chronic diseases to manage his/ her illness and treatment, and prevent avoidable complications, while keeping or improving his/her quality of life. It comprises a set de practical tools aiming the patient to acquire skills to manage himself/herself the disease, its care and supervision, in partnership with healthcare providers. TPE may contribute to improve therapeutic compliance and to reduce clinical inertia, two drawbacks frequently encountered in the management of patients with chronic diseases. As an illustration, we briefly present EDUDORA ("Education thérapeutique et préventive face au diabète et a l'obésité a risque chez l'adulte et l'adolescent" = "Preventive and therapeutic education for diabetes and at risk obesity in adults and adolescents"), an ongoing original project in three frontier regions (Wallonia - Grand-Duchy of Luxembourg - Lorraine).
authors.affiliation: Université de Liège, Service de Diabétologie, Nutrition et Maladies métaboliques, Département de Médecine, CHU de Liège, Belgique.
authors.forename: A J
authors.initials: AJ
authors.lastname: Scheen
authors.forename: J P
authors.initials: JP
authors.lastname: Bourguignon
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Guillaume
mesh_terms: D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D019983:Guideline Adherence; D006282:Health Personnel / Q000193:education; D006801:Humans; D010349:Patient Compliance; D010353:Patient Education as Topic