The Expert Patient and Chronic Respiratory Diseases

The concept of “expert patient” has been developed in the last two decades to define a patient who has a significant knowledge of his/her disease and treatment in addition to self-management skills. However, this concept has evolved over the last years, and these patients are now considered, not onl...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Louis-Philippe Boulet
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Hindawi Limited 2016-01-01
Series:Canadian Respiratory Journal
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2016/9454506