title: Shared medical appointments: facilitating interdisciplinary care for midlife women.
abstract: Shared medical appointments (SMAs) are a new way to deliver woman-focused interdisciplinary care for midlife women. SMAs are a series of one physician to one patient encounters with other patient observers. The women's health physician addresses each woman's unique medical needs individually but in the context of a shared setting. The major focus is on delivering individual medical care with the benefits of additional time spent educating women patients and answering questions.
authors.affiliation: Women's Health Center, Gault Women's Health and Breast Pavilion, The Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, Ohio 44195, USA. thackeh@ccf.org
authors.forename: Holly L
authors.initials: HL
authors.lastname: Thacker
authors.forename: Richard
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Maxwell
authors.forename: Jennifer
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Saporito
authors.forename: David
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Bronson
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D006297:Health Services Accessibility / Q000458:organization & administration; D006801:Humans; D033183:Interdisciplinary Communication; D009820:Ohio; D010348:Patient Care Team / Q000458:organization & administration*; D011247:Pregnancy; D016387:Women's Health; D014932:Women's Health Services / Q000458:organization & administration*