Prevention into Practice, Practicing Prevention

Primary care practices are tasked with centering the health care of adults and children, women and men, on the prevention of disease and cancer. Guidelines change, quality metrics loom, and patients continue to occupy a spectrum of interest and engagement relative to prevention and screening. With increasingly complicated agendas during patient encounters coupled with limited time per office visit, meeting the appropriate needs of our patients in teaching disease prevention and in discussing current guidelines while offering unbiased shared decision making remains a formidable challenge.
Source: Primary Care: Clinics in Office Practice - Category: Primary Care Authors: Tags: Foreword Source Type: research