title: [The physician's different roles and responsibility for the patient's medication list].
abstract: A common understanding of roles and responsibilities regarding both individual prescriptions and the patient's full list of treatments, including the responsibility for monitoring of treatment, is necessary to have for physicians treating the same patient. Qualitative studies of attitudes expressed by Swedish physicians have identified at least four different roles of a physician when prescribing drugs. A model on how to share responsibility in different situations of drug prescribing is described. The described model on how to share responsibilities between different physicians treating the same patient with drugs constitutes the basis for a joint recommendation by the Swedish Medical Association and the network of Swedish Drug and Therapeutics Committees.
authors: Stiftelsen NEPI - nätverk för läkmedelsepidemiologi - Linköping, Sweden - Stiftelsen NEPI Linköping, Sweden.
authors: Mikael
authors: M
authors: Hoffmann
authors: Linköpings universitet - IMT Linköping, Sweden Linköpings universitet - IMV Linköping, Sweden.
authors: Rikard
authors: R
authors: Lövström
mesh_terms: D011307:Drug Prescriptions / Q000592:standards*; D006801:Humans; D059065:Medication Reconciliation; D017146:Models, Organizational; D061214:Patient Safety; D010819:Physician's Role