How minimizing treatment burden can help patients with chronic conditions
An older patient recently told me that she spent 80 days over the past year in a doctor’s office. This represented over 20 percent of her life. She was relatively well but had several chronic medical conditions that required frequent office visits. In addition to these visits, she navigated scheduling, prescriptions, laboratory testing, and copayments.
Her experience is not unusual. For example, among patients with diabetes (a common chronic medical condition), …
