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Monday, January 09, 2012

Editorial: Canadian Medical Association - Early and continuing education: a prescription for achieving patient-centred care



"....It thus seems likely that bringing the patient’s perspective into the system isn’t enough to achieve the health outcomes people want and expect.
Even a perfect system won’t work if patients don’t know how to access it effectively. No matter what resources are available, lack of knowledge about what resources exist — both within and outside the health care system — and how to access them keeps people from receiving what they need when they need it. Also, our failure to help patients adequately understand their disease and its treatment underlies much of the suboptimal adherence to treatment that leads to otherwise preventable outcomes......"

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