Studies on therapeutic patient education in chronic diseases : a survey of literature from 1997 to 2004

11 pagesDescription and analyse evolution of publications devoted to patient education (PE) and therapeutic patient education (TPE) over a 8 years period.(1997-2004).We have tried to describe and analyse the evolution of publications devoted to patient education (PE) and therapeutic patient education (TPE) over a 8 years period.(1997-2004). Among 945513 studies published on chronic diseases, 3 types of analyses have been undertaken : evolution of PE publications, relative evolution of PE and TPE publications, evolution of types of publications (descriptive, experimental, meta-analysis). Our study shows that PE publications have clearly increased over the years , indicating that PE practice is more and more considered of scientific intere