Patient Education and Counseling
Volume 78, Issue 3 , Pages 275-281 , March 2010

A history of patient education by health professionals in Europe and North America: From authority to shared decision making education

  • Ciska Hoving

      Affiliations

    • Maastricht University, Department of Health Promotion, Maastricht, The Netherlands
    • School for Public Health and Primary Care (CAPHRI), The Netherlands
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author at: Maastricht University, P.O. Box 616, 6200 MD Maastricht, The Netherlands. Tel.: +31 43 3881235; fax: +31 43 3671032.
    • ,
  • Adriaan Visser

      Affiliations

    • University of Rotterdam, Expertise Centre Transitions of Care, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
    • ,
  • Patricia Dolan Mullen

      Affiliations

    • University of Texas, School of Public Health, Health Promotion and Behavioral Sciences Division, Houston, TX, USA
    • ,
  • Bart van den Borne

      Affiliations

    • Maastricht University, Department of Health Promotion, Maastricht, The Netherlands
    • School for Public Health and Primary Care (CAPHRI), The Netherlands

Received 9 November 2009 ,Revised 22 January 2010 ,Accepted 27 January 2010.

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doi: 10.1016/j.pec.2010.01.015

Patient Education and Counseling
Volume 78, Issue 3 , Pages 275-281 , March 2010

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