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Method for Improving Patient Chronic Disease Education

  • US 20080268412A1
  • Filed: 08/30/2005
  • Published: 10/30/2008
  • Est. Priority Date: 08/31/2004
  • Status: Abandoned Application
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1. A method of improving a self-management education program for a patient having a chronic disease, the chronic disease being treatable through the patient'"'"'s own behavior, the method comprising the steps of:

  • selecting at least one self-care behavior from a standardized set of behavioral outcomes related to the chronic disease;

    measuring a baseline behavior for the patient for the selected at least one self-care behavior;

    measuring the at least one self-care behavior at the end of an interval for the selected self-care behavior to gauge an extent of behavior change; and

    adjusting the self-management education program where the extent of behavior change is negligible.

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