Erschienen in:
01.12.2017 | Editorial
Eliciting Personal Values of Patients with Multiple Chronic Conditions: Why and How
verfasst von:
Michele Heisler, MD, MPA
Erschienen in:
Journal of General Internal Medicine
|
Ausgabe 12/2017
Einloggen, um Zugang zu erhalten
Excerpt
Think about your own clinical practice. How often do you try to engage your patients in a discussion about what is most important to them for their well-being and health, beyond a narrow discussion of their preferences for specific diagnostic and treatment options? If you have broached the topic of core values, how often has the patient looked somewhat surprised and responded with a brief, medically focused answer (e.g., “I hate taking medications”)? I suspect that, like me, many other clinicians rarely broach questions of personal values—defined as what a person considers important in life—and when we do, our patients understand us to mean medically related values and respond accordingly. …