Shared medical appointments: facilitating interdisciplinary care for midlife women.
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.
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Holly L
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Women's Health Center, Gault Women's Health and Breast Pavilion, The Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, Ohio 44195, USA. thackeh@ccf.org
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Richard
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Saporito
Jennifer
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Bronson
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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*