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GEN: Treat the Paper, Not the PatientFrom: art fougner, md (evsono@pipeline.com)Fri May 18 09:30:40 2001
This in this weekend's BMJ - News roundup US cancer care is worse due to more paperwork US cancer specialists are calling for reform of administrative measures designed to reduce healthcare fraud that have resulted in so much paperwork that patient care is suffering, according to results from a survey presented earlier this week. The survey of more than 2500 clinical oncologists showed that the amount of time they spend filling out paperwork and documenting patient care has increased more than fourfold over the past 25 years. The average time spent with patients remained constant over this period, but the doctors taking part in the survey considered that far more of this time is now spent in documenting information judged to be extraneous to the reason for the consultation. The study, carried out by the American Society of Clinical Oncology, also showed that the time spent carrying out clinical research and teaching medical residents had decreased by nearly half. Susan Mayor , San Francisco these are the times that try practitioner's souls. art
-- art fougner, md
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