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      Overwhelmed Patients : A videographic analysis of how patients with type 2 diabetes and clinicians articulate and address treatment burden during clinical encounters

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      , PHARMD 1 , 2 , , MD 1 , 3 , , PHD 1 , 4 ,   , PHD 5 , , MD, MSC 1 , 3
      Diabetes Care
      American Diabetes Association

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          Abstract

          OBJECTIVE

          Patients with diabetes may experience high burden of treatment (BOT), including treatment-related effects and self-care demands. We examined whether patients with type 2 diabetes and their clinicians discuss BOT, the characteristics of their discussions, and their attempts to address BOT during visits.

          RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS

          Two coders independently reviewed videos of 46 primary care visits obtained during a practice-based trial and identified utterances concerning BOT, classifying them by topic and by whether BOT was addressed (i.e., whether statements emerged aimed at alleviating BOT).

          RESULTS

          Of the 46 visits, 43 (93.5%) contained BOT discussions. Both coders identified 83 discussions: 12 involving monitoring, 28 treatment administration, 19 access, and 24 treatment effects. BOT was unambiguously addressed only 30% of the time.

          CONCLUSIONS

          BOT discussions usually arise during visits but rarely beget problem-solving efforts. These discussions represent missed opportunities for reducing treatment-related disruptions in the lives of patients with diabetes, which may affect adherence and well-being.

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          Understanding patients' experiences of treatment burden in chronic heart failure using normalization process theory.

          Our goal was to assess the burden associated with treatment among patients living with chronic heart failure and to determine whether Normalization Process Theory (NPT) is a useful framework to help describe the components of treatment burden in these patients. We performed a secondary analysis of qualitative interview data, using framework analysis, informed by NPT, to determine the components of patient "work." Participants were 47 patients with chronic heart failure managed in primary care in the United Kingdom who had participated in an earlier qualitative study about living with this condition. We identified and examined data that fell outside of the coding frame to determine if important concepts or ideas were being missed by using the chosen theoretical framework. We were able to identify and describe components of treatment burden as distinct from illness burden using the framework. Treatment burden in chronic heart failure includes the work of developing an understanding of treatments, interacting with others to organize care, attending appointments, taking medications, enacting lifestyle measures, and appraising treatments. Factors that patients reported as increasing treatment burden included too many medications and appointments, barriers to accessing services, fragmented and poorly organized care, lack of continuity, and inadequate communication between health professionals. Patient "work" that fell outside of the coding frame was exclusively emotional or spiritual in nature. We identified core components of treatment burden as reported by patients with chronic heart failure. The findings suggest that NPT is a theoretical framework that facilitates understanding of experiences of health care work at the individual, as well as the organizational, level. Although further exploration and patient endorsement are necessary, our findings lay the foundation for a new target for treatment and quality improvement efforts toward patient-centered care.
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            Physician-patient communication in the primary care office: a systematic review.

            The physician-patient interview is the key component of all health care, particularly of primary medical care. This review sought to evaluate existing primary-care-based research studies to determine which verbal and nonverbal behaviors on the part of the physician during the medical encounter have been linked in empirical studies with favorable patient outcomes. We reviewed the literature from 1975 to 2000 for studies of office interactions between primary care physicians and patients that evaluated these interactions empirically using neutral observers who coded observed encounters, videotapes, or audiotapes. Each study was reviewed for the quality of the methods and to find statistically significant relations between specific physician behaviors and patient outcomes. In examining nonverbal behaviors, because of a paucity of clinical outcome studies, outcomes were expanded to include associations with patient characteristics or subjective ratings of the interaction by observers. We found 14 studies of verbal communication and 8 studies of nonverbal communication that met inclusion criteria. Verbal behaviors positively associated with health outcomes included empathy, reassurance and support, various patient-centered questioning techniques, encounter length, history taking, explanations, both dominant and passive physician styles, positive reinforcement, humor, psychosocial talk, time in health education and information sharing, friendliness, courtesy, orienting the patient during examination, and summarization and clarification. Nonverbal behaviors positively associated with outcomes included head nodding, forward lean, direct body orientation, uncrossed legs and arms, arm symmetry, and less mutual gaze. Existing research is limited because of lack of consensus of what to measure, conflicting findings, and relative lack of empirical studies (especially of nonverbal behavior). Nonetheless, medical educators should focus on teaching and reinforcing behaviors known to be facilitative, and to continue to understand further how physician behavior can enhance favorable patient outcomes, such as understanding and adherence to medical regimens and overall satisfaction.
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              Self-monitoring of blood glucose levels and glycemic control: the Northern California Kaiser Permanente Diabetes registry.

              We sought to evaluate the effectiveness of self-monitoring blood glucose levels to improve glycemic control. A cohort design was used to assess the relation between self-monitoring frequency (1996 average daily glucometer strip utilization) and the first glycosylated hemoglobin (HbA1c) level measured in 1997. The study sample included 24,312 adult patients with diabetes who were members of a large, group model, managed care organization. We estimated the difference between HbA1c levels in patients who self-monitored at frequencies recommended by the American Diabetes Association compared with those who monitored less frequently or not at all. Models were adjusted for age, sex, race, education, occupation, income, duration of diabetes, medication refill adherence, clinic appointment "no show" rate, annual eye exam attendance, use of nonpharmacological (diet and exercise) diabetes therapy, smoking, alcohol consumption, hospitalization and emergency room visits, and the number of daily insulin injections. Self-monitoring among patients with type 1 diabetes (> or = 3 times daily) and pharmacologically treated type 2 diabetes (at least daily) was associated with lower HbA1c levels (1.0 percentage points lower in type 1 diabetes and 0.6 points lower in type 2 diabetes) than was less frequent monitoring (P < 0.0001). Although there are no specific recommendations for patients with nonpharmacologically treated type 2 diabetes, those who practiced self-monitoring (at any frequency) had a 0.4 point lower HbA1c level than those not practicing at all (P < 0.0001). More frequent self-monitoring of blood glucose levels was associated with clinically and statistically better glycemic control regardless of diabetes type or therapy. These findings support the clinical recommendations suggested by the American Diabetes Association.
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                Author and article information

                Journal
                Diabetes Care
                diacare
                dcare
                Diabetes Care
                Diabetes Care
                American Diabetes Association
                0149-5992
                1935-5548
                January 2012
                9 December 2011
                : 35
                : 1
                : 47-49
                Affiliations
                [1] 1Knowledge and Evaluation Research Unit, Division of Endocrinology, Department of Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota
                [2] 2Avera Research Institute & Avera Cancer Institute, Sioux Falls, South Dakota
                [3] 3Mayo Medical School, Rochester, Minnesota
                [4] 4Division of Health Care and Policy Research, Department of Health Sciences Research, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota
                [5] 5School of Health Sciences, University of Southampton, Southampton, England, U.K.
                Author notes
                Corresponding author: Victor M. Montori, montori.victor@ 123456mayo.edu .
                Article
                1082
                10.2337/dc11-1082
                3241328
                22100962
                162edd6a-d957-4e9e-bb26-48f5561f4c60
                © 2012 by the American Diabetes Association.

                Readers may use this article as long as the work is properly cited, the use is educational and not for profit, and the work is not altered. See http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ for details.

                History
                : 8 June 2011
                : 6 October 2011
                Categories
                Original Research
                Clinical Care/Education/Nutrition/Psychosocial Research

                Endocrinology & Diabetes
                Endocrinology & Diabetes

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