This report describes activities of a workshop conducted for fourteen health education practitioners and administrators from a number of different hospital and health care settings and geographical regions to appraise the state of patient education programs. The initiation and growth of patient education programs in a variety of health care delivery settings are described. The bulk of this report is contained in the appendixes, which include the following: a paper, "An Overview of Patient Education," by Dr. Jeannette Simmons, Harvard School of Public Health; a listing of regional sources of patient education materials; and seventy pages of a variety of patient education materials, such as a diabetic patient education program, teaching guidelines for the ostomy patient, and program design components for planning for specific patient education programs. (BL)