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+<br>I am the physician who has been coordinating the project you are writing about. I am author of the studies that Mr. Krause quotes, and also the person interviewed in the AMA news article which is from May of 2013 (see link above). I would like to tell you about what we are doing. There is a lot of research showing that physicians and other health [Glyco Care supplement](https://metazoowiki.com/index.php/User:Krista1985) providers often overlook the personal challenges patients face while trying to manage their own health care. For example a Veteran with diabetes who starts to work the night shift may no longer be able to take his insulin and other medications on the usual schedule. It is critical for doctors to find out about these challenges and to help Veterans adapt to them at every visit. If they don’t, then Veterans will not receive care that is beneficial to them. The only way to know if physicians are asking about the challenges Veterans face and then helping them address them, is by audio recording the visit.<br>
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+<br>And the only way to do that ethically is to give the Veteran control of that process. We invite Veterans to volunteer to audio record their visit. We tell them that our quality improvement team will listen to the visit and then provide feedback to the health care team on whether they are addressing Veterans’ individual needs and circumstances when planning their care. We also tell them that this is entirely voluntary. Not everyone is comfortable recording their visit for a quality improvement program. So that is a personal decision. We give them a number to call if they ever have questions. The project has been really helpful in terms of our providing doctors, nurses, pharmacists and front desk clerks with feedback on how they can do a better job helping meet Veterans’ needs. Also, there are situations where we do hear them doing a great job, and we commend them for that and reinforce excellent care. What do we consider excellent personalized care?<br>
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+<br>Take as an example the one above about a Veteran with diabetes who has to work the night shift. The first thing that happened when he could not take his insulin at the usual times is that his sugars got out of control. They were often too high. A physician who doesn’t figure out what is really the problem will incorrectly think that he or she just needs to prescribe a higher dosage of insulin. On the other hand, if he or she asks the Veteran about what has changed in their life that might explain why their diabetes has gone out of control, they will learn about the Veteran’s new work situation. The correct [Glyco Care Wellness Guideberberine blood sugar support](https://www.xn--3dkvalq0cx455coz1c.com/wiki/index.php/%E5%88%A9%E7%94%A8%E8%80%85:PhyllisWhiteman) will involve talking with the Veteran about how to change when to take their medicine and eat meals so that they can control their diabetes. With this audio recording project we have found that Veterans face many different kinds of challenges in their lives related to work, family, disability, finances etc…<br>
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+<br>This project has enabled us to give physicians and care teams continuous feedback on how to do this better. To answer the concerns mentioned in this blog: first, only Veterans audio record their care. There is never a situation in which anyone else does. So, there is no situation in which Veterans are unaware they are being recorded, since they are always the one doing the recording. Second, all the staff know that some Veterans will be [recording](https://www.fool.com/search/solr.aspx?q=recording) their visits. Also, on a regular basis, we provide staff with many examples from the audio recordings. The names of Veterans and staff are removed, because it is only the examples themselves that are important to discuss. The staff that listens to the audio recordings are not health care providers or administrators. They have been trained to listen for clues that Veterans have particular challenges and then to see if the health [Glyco Care benefits](http://vecsil.bget.ru/en/component/k2/itemlist/user/48293.html) team is addressing them.<br>
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+<br>Those clues are the "red flags" that are referred to above. The audio recordings are not accessible to anyone else in the VA system or outside and are encrypted. Also there are no identifiers. Instead of using the Veteran’s name, we assign a number that tells us which health care team took care of the patient. That way we can give feedback to the right health care providers. These identifiers are stored separately and also are not accessible to anyone except the quality improvement team. All this is important because it means that the data can never be used for any other purpose other than to provide feedback on quality. Finally, quality improvement data is legally protected from discovery in court. So, the data will never end up in court. ’t be much use anyway because the identifiable information is removed. This project is not national. It is currently just at two VA facilities. A major health care journal that is run by The Joint Commission (which accredits all US healthcare facilities) and that focuses on quality improvement will be publishing a report of this project in June. We have gone to great lengths to do this right, consulting with an ethics team, legal counsel, privacy officers and quality improvement experts. We are always looking for ways to improve and welcome feedback.<br>