Doctors and patients are taught the wrong skills for managing chronic disease

Despite advances in the clinical treatment of asthma, morbidity and mortality remain high. Clark and Gong attribute this gap to patients' behaviour and clinicians' performance, and they use asthma to show how patients and doctors ought to be taught to control chronic disease (p 572). Patients should, they argue, be taught the behavioural skills to enable them to regulate their own management to achieve the goals they want, and the clinician's role is to teach patients these skills as well as to provide information.


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Management of chronic disease by practitioners and patients: are we teaching the wrong things?
Noreen M Clark and Molly Gong
BMJ 2000 320: 572-575. [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF]

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