We invited 73 experts with experience in palliative care to participate in the expert panel: general practitioners, coordinators of palliative care networks, case managers working in palliative care, researchers and policy makers in palliative care.
Managing polypharmacy is particularly demanding for general practitioners as coordinators of care.
The expert panel reflects the opinions of case managers, coordinators of palliative care networks, general practitioners and other physicians, researchers and policy makers.
A number of practitioners were invited through different means (Sociedad Española de Medicina Familiar y Comunitaria, project coordinators' peers, scientific events, etc) to participate in the study.
"There's a lot of room in some of these handbags, so people fill [them] up," says Caroline Dorsen, an advanced certified nurse practitioner and coordinator of the Adult Nurse Practitioner Program at New York University's College of Nursing.
Irving B. Weiner, a clinical professor of psychiatry and behavioral medicine at the University of South Florida (and formerly the part-time paid "advocacy coordinator" for test defenders) replies that Wood & Company are being irresponsibly provocative: "A small handful of people are saying negative things, as opposed to a large international group of practitioners getting good results from it.
They then deploy new medical SWAT teams — including not just doctors but health coaches, care coordinators, nurse practitioners — to intervene and encourage patients to live healthier lives.
General practitioners (GP) are often the main coordinators of CLBP and CWP patients' management.
These representatives were coordinators of programs.
The regional health coordinator and the health district coordinators have authorized the study as well as the coordinators of each health facility in which the survey was conducted.
