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Vineet Arora, MD, MA; Sandeep Gangireddy, MD; Amit Mehrotra, MD; Ranjan Ginde, BA; Megan Tormey, BA; David Meltzer, MD, PhD

Arch Intern Med. 2009;169(2):199-201.

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Patients in teaching hospitals may be confused regarding who is involved in their care and by their respective roles in their care. Physicians in training may contribute to this problem through the failure to introduce themselves and their role to patients.¹ Resident duty-hour limits and the use of nonteaching hospitalists may also contribute to this problem owing to increased care fragmentation. In addition to system factors, certain patients may be less likely to identify their hospital physician because of various socioeconomic and demographic factors. Regardless of the cause, patients who are unable to identify their physicians may be less informed about their hospitalization and not know to whom to direct questions, impairing their ability to make informed decisions both during and after hospitalization. To empower patients in this setting, several . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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