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Hidden in Plain Sight<subtitle>Medical Visit Companions as a Resource for Vulnerable Older Adults</subtitle>
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BACKGROUND: Sicker patients are less satisfied with the quality of health care they receive than their healthier counterparts. METHODS: A sample of 12,018 community-dwelling Medicare beneficiaries 65 years or older from the 2004 Medicare Current Beneficiary Survey was studied. Multivariate regression was used to describe whether beneficiaries' self-reported satisfaction with their usual-care physician was related to the presence or functions assumed by visit companions. RESULTS: Overall, 38.6% of beneficiaries reported being typically accompanied to routine medical visits. Accompanied beneficiaries were older, less educated, and in worse health than their unaccompanied counterparts. More than 60% of companions facilitated visit communication by recording physician instructions (44.1%), providing information regarding patients' medical conditions or needs (41.6%), asking questions (41.1%), or explaining physicians' instructions (29.7%). After controlling for sociodemographic and health differences, accompanied beneficiaries were more highly satisfied with their physician's technical skills (odds ratio [OR], 1.15; 95% confidence interval [CI], 1.02-1.30), information giving (OR, 1.19; 95% CI, 1.05-1.35), and interpersonal skills (OR, 1.18; 95% CI, 1.03-1.35) than unaccompanied beneficiaries. Accompanied beneficiaries whose visit companions were more actively engaged in communication rated physician information giving (OR, 1.42; 95% CI, 1.14-1.77) and interpersonal skills (OR, 1.29; 95% CI, 1.05-1.59) more favorably. This relationship was strongest among beneficiaries with the worst self-rated health. CONCLUSIONS: Visit companions are commonly present in older adults' routine medical encounters, actively engaged in care processes, and influential to patients' satisfaction with physician care. More systematic recognition and integration of visit companions in health care processes may benefit quality of care for a particularly vulnerable patient population.
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“The “Medical Visit Companion” (MVC) is usually a spouse [3]”
From Non-spouse companions accompanying older adults to medical visits: a qualitative analysis (2019) · cites this paper as [3]
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“Few studies have examined the very significant role played by MVCs before and after a healthcare visit [12] with most literature focusing purely on their contributions during the healthcare encounter [3, 7–10, 14, 21, 31].”
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“MVCs often take on multiple roles in the visit [5, 6], acting as patient advocates, assisting with information exchange and dissemination, medication management, helping patients retain important information, and the coordination of care when needed [3, 6].”
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“These studies typically examine the influence of the companion on the provider, the patient, or on the provider-patient interaction and report similar roles to those described by our participants; advocacy and assistance with communication and information exchange.”
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“That said, patients’ satisfaction has been established as conveying meaningful information regarding the experience of receiving care, such as unmet expectations, quality of information giving and communication, and patient-centeredness.(21,28,29) The quality of patient-physician communication, in turn, has been shown…”
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- Wolff, J. L.
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- Archives of Internal Medicine
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- American Medical Association (AMA)
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- 2008-07-14
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- 168
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- 13
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- 1409
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- 0003-9926 (ISSN-L)
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