15 Jul Patient Proxies Increasingly Important As Health Care Fragments
MedicalResearch.com Interview with:
Dr. Teno
Dr. Joan Teno, MD MD
Cambia Palliative Care Center of Excellence
Seattle, WA
MedicalResearch.com: What is the background for this study? What are the main findings?
Response: Our interest is understanding how continuity of care has changed with the eventual goal of understanding the impact on quality of care.
MedicalResearch.com: What should clinicians and patients take away from your report?
Response: Make sure you have a proxy. Choose your proxy carefully. In this era of health silos and multiple heath care professionals involved in your care at each silo, it is important to have an advocate make sure that you get your care that you need and want.
MedicalResearch.com: What recommendations do you have for future research as a result of this study?
Response: Is this changing patterns of care that frail, older persons with multiple chronic illness care is in the hands of multiple health care professionals that practice in silos of health care providing high quality of care?
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Last Updated on July 15, 2017 by Marie Benz MD FAAD