Much less has been done to assist with clinical interventions. The authors watched health care use by these cohorts over 3 years and found that more than half of the patients initially defined as having somatization disorder were reclassified to the minor acute illness class within the next 2 years. For the clinician, these 2 groups often present clinical dilemmas in terms of understanding how to care for them and what resources to use in their care.
This preliminary study presents many clinically relevant issues. Although the patients studied were members of a health maintenance organization HMO in Michigan, the frequency of this problem in non-HMO practice is significant.
Is there greater use of the system by patients who choose an HMO model of health care delivery? It might also be of interest to see if the frequent use was physician dependent.
Many clinical practices have very little trouble with frequent users, while others are overwhelmed by the problem. Is there something in the style or arrangement of the practice that fuels frequent use?
In the non-HMO model, these patients are at risk of obtaining care from multiple health care providers. The problem of how to treat frequent users of the health care system is common in primary care. It is the obligation of citizens and journalists as well as governments. Wurzel was quite right; they had been supplied, regardless of cost, from Messrs.
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