Understanding the treatment burden

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Every week we hear a new story about the burden of chronic diseases. Diabetes, heart disease, cancer and Alzheimer’s all have a direct financial burden on the patient, and they have an even larger indirect burden on society. But what about the burden of different therapeutic choices, the so-called “treatment burden”? Despite over 20 years as a physician, treatment burden is a term I had not heard until recently. Simply put, the treatment burden is “the workload of healthcare and its effect on patient functioning and well-being.” The BMJ: Treatment burden should be included in clinical practice guidelines Our medical culture has become so obsessed with guidelines, performance metrics and drug trials that we have lost sight of possibly the most important question — how will this treatment impact our patient’s life? We chase statistical “p values” for benefits that amounts to a fraction of a percent and call it a breakthrough. But we forget to ask, “Will the...
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