Discussing Long-term Prognosis in Primary Care: Hard but Necessary

Affiliations

¹ Division of General Medicine and Primary Care, Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts.
² Division of Geriatrics, Department of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco3San Francisco VA Medical Center, San Francisco, California.

Comment

Mara A Schonberg et al. JAMA Intern Med. 2016.

. 2016 May 1;176(5):678-80.

doi: 10.1001/jamainternmed.2016.0972.

¹ Division of General Medicine and Primary Care, Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts.
² Division of Geriatrics, Department of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco3San Francisco VA Medical Center, San Francisco, California.

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Primary Care Practitioners' Views on Incorporating Long-term Prognosis in the Care of Older Adults.
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