Teamwork Between Attending Doctors and Care Support
10.2185/jjrm.62.112
- VernacularTitle:主治医と介護支援専門員との連携
- Author:
Etsuko MIKAMI
;
Shinichiro NAKAMURA
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- From:Journal of the Japanese Association of Rural Medicine
2013;62(2):112-118
- CountryJapan
- Language:Japanese
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Abstract:
This report is designed to evaluate the five-year management of a tool known as the Table of Communication (Inquiries) for the Home Care Support Program, whose preparation was begun by the Yanai Medical Association, Yanai Municipal Government and local home care support specialists in 2005. From a questionnaire survey performed once a year on the use of the Table of Communication (Inquiries) by members of the Medical Association and care support specialists, an attempt is made here to extract and compare good and bad points inherent to the contact between 2009 and 2011. In the initial phase, some members of the Medical Association did not assume a forward- looking posture in setting forth their views or failed to respond to the questionnaires delivered to them. Instead of giving up our approach, nevertheless, we kept distributing them to those members. As time went by, however, they came at last to realize it necessary to fill them out along with additional comments and promptly sent them back to the sponsors. On the other hand, there were signs that few replies with personal comments were turned in from doctors assigned to general hospitals. With awkward relations gradually dissipating over a period of five years, this tool, hailed as “Yanai Formula,&rquo; has developed into a system indispensable for attending doctors and home care support specialists. Recently prepared, the Table of Communication (Inquiries) has turned out to be a useful tool, which serves to reinforce the contact between attending doctors and home care support specialists. The major factor contributory to this successful venture is that this tool has been prepared and managed by a committee of three agents - to wit: the Medical Association, the municipality and the home care support specialists. When it comes to teamwork with a general hospital’s doctors, however, there still remain many issues yet to cope with, even though it has served as an operation center, so much so that we wish this method to develop into a genuine tool of teamwork that involves general hospitals' doctors.
