Listening for What Matters: Avoiding Contextual Errors in Health Care

by Alan Schwartz and Saul J Weiner

Book Overview

Effective health care requires physicians tailor care to patients' individual life contexts, including their financial situation, social support, competing responsibilities, and cognitive abilities. Physicians, however, are poorly prepared to consider patients' lives when planning their care. The result is measurably harmful to individuals and costly to society.

Listening for What Matters: Avoiding Contextual Errors in Health Care covers ten...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0190228997
• ISBN13: 9780190228996
• Release Date: February 2016
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 6.0" x 9.2"