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The most difficult patients have one thing in common: They need to change their health habits. Group visits can help them.
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Antonucci, Jean M. |
| Copyright Year | 2008 |
| Abstract | T he American poet and essayist James Russell Lowell said, “Human nature has a much greater genius for sameness than for originality.” Family physicians know this. Not only do we see the same diseases repeatedly, but we also see common ways of coping and common reasons for failure. We see patients who struggle with healthy eating and exercise. We see patients who cannot comply with our orders because of low income, lack of support at home, trouble with pain or depression. As a way of providing additional support to struggling patients, the idea of treating patients who have the same diseases in group visits appeared in the literature several years ago, but it has not gained traction. This article presents a different approach: Focusing group visits not on a single disease state but on behavior change. |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://www.aafp.org/fpm/2008/0400/pa6.pdf |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
