Publications by authors named "Maria Grazia Albano"
Article Synopsis
- Discharge education (DE) is a patient education practice aimed at easing the transition from hospital to home, reducing early readmissions for both acute and chronic patients.
- A scoping review of 43 studies highlights DE's effectiveness in improving clinical and psychosocial outcomes, with a strong focus in pediatrics and post-operative care.
- For DE to be successful, it should be structured with systematic follow-up, tailored to patient needs, and involve trained caregivers using interactive teaching methods.
Article Synopsis
- Discharge education (DE) is a patient education practice aimed at facilitating the transition from hospital to home, reducing early readmissions, and enhancing the quality of care across various specialties.* -
- A review of 43 studies indicates that DE, typically lasting 30 minutes to an hour, is effective in improving clinical outcomes and patient compliance, especially in pediatric and post-operative contexts.* -
- Successful DE requires structured follow-ups and interactive teaching methods tailored to patient needs, highlighting the importance of training for caregivers to maximize its benefits.*
Authors discuss therapeutic potential of reading activity, partially still unknown. Starting from Menninger's work in the early 30's until most recent studies from Frude, Berns, Comer who confirmed its efficacy in both the so-called non-organic diseases and chronic pathological conditions. Their studies strongly suggested psychobiological mechanisms through which reading activity exerts its therapeutic effects.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFTherapeutic patient education programmes on heart failure have been widely proposed for many years for heart failure patients, but their efficiency remains questionable, partly because most articles lack a precise programme description, which makes comparative analysis of the studies difficult. To analyse the degree of precision in describing therapeutic patient education programmes in recent randomized controlled trials. Three major recent recommendations on therapeutic patient education in heart failure inspired us to compile a list of 23 relevant items that an 'ideal' description of a therapeutic patient education programme should contain.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective: The aim of this study is to point out the recent characteristics and developments of therapeutic patient education (TPE) in rheumatoid arthritis through an analysis of the international articles published from 2003 to 2008.
Method: Studies were selected from major databases, using the following keywords: rheumatoid arthritis, patient education, self-management, programs. Three authors independently reviewed each study and selected the data using the patient education research categories (PERC).