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Published in: Journal of General Internal Medicine 10/2017

01-10-2017 | Perspective

Assessing the Burden of Treatment

Authors: Gabriela Spencer-Bonilla, BA, Ana R. Quiñones, PhD, Victor M. Montori, MD, MSc, On behalf of the International Minimally Disruptive Medicine Workgroup

Published in: Journal of General Internal Medicine | Issue 10/2017

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Abstract

Current healthcare systems and guidelines are not designed to adapt to care for the large and growing number of patients with complex care needs and those with multimorbidity. Minimally disruptive medicine (MDM) is an approach to providing care for complex patients that advances patients’ goals in health and life while minimizing the burden of treatment. Measures of treatment burden assess the impact of healthcare workload on patient function and well-being. At least two of these measures are now available for use with patients living with chronic conditions. Here, we describe these measures and how they can be useful for clinicians, researchers, managers, and policymakers. Their work to improve the care of high-cost, high-use, complex patients using innovative patient-centered models such as MDM should be supported by periodic large-scale assessments of treatment burden.
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Metadata
Title
Assessing the Burden of Treatment
Authors
Gabriela Spencer-Bonilla, BA
Ana R. Quiñones, PhD
Victor M. Montori, MD, MSc
On behalf of the International Minimally Disruptive Medicine Workgroup
Publication date
01-10-2017
Publisher
Springer US
Published in
Journal of General Internal Medicine / Issue 10/2017
Print ISSN: 0884-8734
Electronic ISSN: 1525-1497
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s11606-017-4117-8

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