The response to the question at 49:00 ...understanding people priorities takes time... is interesting. Dr. Tinneti clearly describes why the patients perspective and their meaningful priorities is the most efficient way to address and improve their health concerns. I'm curious why their has been no mention in this interview of Occupational Therapy, the one allied health discipline that is paid to identify, and report this very information back to the MDT. This is pretty much Occupational Therapy's core super skill. It's on the OT curriculum and the discipline has been refining evidence-based methods to do this for decades. I'm glad that physicians are now appreciate the value of this (both for the patient and the bottom line). But the value of harnessing all the expertise of the Occupational Therapy practitioner simply by listening to OT's in the Team meetings might have saved so many resources, not to mention improved outcomes. Seems like a glaring oversight of an already existing resource on the multi disciplinary health team.
It is great that physicians want to understand their patients’ priorities and it would take time in the short conversations they have. A referral to the OT could be a time-efficient way to get clear on these priorities. I have appreciated seeing more OTs hired by primary care networks here in Alberta but I’m not sure how they’re being engaged on the team.
The response to the question at 49:00 ...understanding people priorities takes time... is interesting. Dr. Tinneti clearly describes why the patients perspective and their meaningful priorities is the most efficient way to address and improve their health concerns. I'm curious why their has been no mention in this interview of Occupational Therapy, the one allied health discipline that is paid to identify, and report this very information back to the MDT. This is pretty much Occupational Therapy's core super skill. It's on the OT curriculum and the discipline has been refining evidence-based methods to do this for decades. I'm glad that physicians are now appreciate the value of this (both for the patient and the bottom line). But the value of harnessing all the expertise of the Occupational Therapy practitioner simply by listening to OT's in the Team meetings might have saved so many resources, not to mention improved outcomes. Seems like a glaring oversight of an already existing resource on the multi disciplinary health team.
It is great that physicians want to understand their patients’ priorities and it would take time in the short conversations they have. A referral to the OT could be a time-efficient way to get clear on these priorities. I have appreciated seeing more OTs hired by primary care networks here in Alberta but I’m not sure how they’re being engaged on the team.