What is it about?
This article describes the strategies that people with chronic illnesses employ in their efforts to manage their health within health systems. Health systems do not always work efficiently and this can sometimes result in medical error, polypharmacy, poor continuity of care and poor care coordination. This article looks at what patients do to manage their own time and their own health, and how they manage despite these system limitations.
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Why is it important?
the paper offers a multimorbidity-appropriate care plan to help patients manage the many time-based needs of their bodies in the context of social time.
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This article is important because it not only explores the complexity of chronic illness self management, but it also offers a tool for assisting patients towards enhancing their self-management and making it easier for them to plan for their future.
Dr Tanisha Jowsey
University of Auckland
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This page is a summary of: Time to manage: patient strategies for coping with an absence of care coordination and continuity, Sociology of Health & Illness, February 2016, Wiley,
DOI: 10.1111/1467-9566.12404.
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