Do You Want Your Doctor to Tell You What to Do?
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In this study participants who had high blood pressure and high cholesterol were compared on a patient centered approach to a more traditional doctor knows best. The authors speculated that the kind of patient who doesn't like being told what to do is less likely to follow doctors orders. This study was completely correlational and they are trying to draw cause and effect relationships.
U.S. News's Avery Comarow has been editor of the America's Best Hospitals annual rankings since they first appeared in 1990. His reporting on clinical medicine, from the latest cholesterol guidelines to robotic surgery, has been driven by the question: What does this mean to patients? And that is the perspective he brings to his observations and commentaries on the increasing number of programs by hospitals and other healthcare providers to improve care and patient safety.
