Group visits, also called shared medical appointments (SMAs), can offer advantages over traditional one-on-one patient-physician visits. However, few physician offices have successfully implemented ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Shared medical appointments for patients with vitiligo allowed improved access to dermatologic care without ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Healthy lifestyle counseling to help cancer survivors lead a better life is crucial. The lifestyle medicine ...

Shared medical appointment patients appear more satisfied with their care than those receiving usual care, according to a study published in the Annals of Family Medicine. The cross-sectional study ...

(NBC News) How would you feel about seeing your doctor with a dozen other patients, facing the same health conditions as you? That’s what some hospitals and doctor’s offices are doing. The “shared ...

Researchers from the Cleveland Clinic and Takeda Pharmaceutical Company conducted a study to evaluate the effectiveness of shared medical appointments for people with pre-diabetes compared with a ...

Glycemic control in patients with type 2 diabetes was improved through a shared medical appointment program focusing on lifestyle education and behavior change. Since no standard exists for the format ...

As health care reform kicks in to high gear, a new innovation in health care delivery is being touted at Cleveland Clinic: shared patient appointments. On the surface, this idea seems so efficient and ...

Show More Betty Irene Moore School of Nursing, University of California Davis, Davis, CA; Dana-Farber Cancer Institute-Harvard Medical School; and Harvard Vanguard Medical Associates, Boston, MA ...

Shared medical appointments (SMAs) were clinically applied at the Palo Alto Medical Clinic in northern California in 2000. SMAs improve patients' access to timely and quality care, which results in ...

This model, around since the mid-1990s, is now getting more attention. In a shared medical appointment, eight to 10 patients with a common denominator—a chronic condition such as diabetes, or elderly ...

Starting a group medical appointment isn't without its challenges, however. Cheng remembers the growing pains well. "You're like the new kid on the block and you're going against the establishment," ...