A Matter of Time

The passage of time in any medical situation is perceived in different ways, depending on who is doing and watching. At many points in the delivery of health care, time moves slowly, lags a few beats, races ahead, or even lurches forward in a disconcertingly asynchronous manner. Here, Lloyd and Gold...

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Published in:JAMA : the journal of the American Medical Association 2009-08, Vol.302 (8), p.894-895
Main Authors: Lloyd, Robert C, Goldmann, Donald A
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Biomedical Research - trends
Clinical medicine
Delivery of Health Care - trends
Health care
Health care delivery
Health Care Reform
Humans
Illness Behavior
Medical research
Quality of Health Care - trends
Sick Role
Time
United States
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Summary:The passage of time in any medical situation is perceived in different ways, depending on who is doing and watching. At many points in the delivery of health care, time moves slowly, lags a few beats, races ahead, or even lurches forward in a disconcertingly asynchronous manner. Here, Lloyd and Goldmann comment on the improvement of time. They focus on the context of three traditional aspects of medical time: clinical research (knowledge) time, patient (illness) time, and clinical practice (disease) time.
ISSN:0098-7484
1538-3598
DOI:10.1001/jama.2009.1251