title: [Diabetes education in adult diabetic patients].
abstract: Diabetes education has gained a critical role in diabetes care. The empowerment of patients aims to actively influence the course of the disease by self-monitoring and treatment modification. Diabetes education has to be made accessible for all patients with the disease. To be able to provide a structured and validated education program adequate personal as well as space, organizational and financial background are required. Besides an increase in knowledge about the disease it has been shown that structured diabetes education is able to improve diabetes outcome measured by parameters like blood glucose, HbA1c, blood pressure and body weight in follow-up evaluations.
authors.affiliation: Abteilung für Innere Medizin, Diakonissen-KH Salzburg, Salzburg, Österreich. raimund.weitgasser@diakoniewerk.at
authors.forename: Raimund
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Weitgasser
authors.forename: Martin
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Clodi
authors.forename: Gertrud
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Kacerovsky-Bielesz
authors.forename: Peter
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Grafinger
authors.forename: Monika
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Lechleitner
authors.forename: Kinga
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Howorka
authors.forename: Bernhard
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Ludvik
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001317:Austria; D015190:Blood Glucose Self-Monitoring / Q000592:standards*; D003920:Diabetes Mellitus / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000628:therapy*; D006801:Humans; D010353:Patient Education as Topic / Q000592:standards*; D017410:Practice Guidelines as Topic; D012648:Self Care / Q000592:standards*