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Clinical inertia: viewpoints of general practitioners and diabetologists
A Avignon1, C Attali, A Sultan
1CHU Montpellier, F-34295 Montpellier, France. a-avignon@chu-montpellier.fr
Abstract:
Large clinical studies have enabled best practice guidelines to be issued. Intended to serve practitioners in their daily practice, the guidelines are also excellent tools for assessing physician performance. It was therefore demonstrated that despite the observation of insufficient glycaemic control, physicians did not systematically increase drug treatments. As a result, they have been accused of clinical inertia! In this journal, we first try to reveal what is behind this concept and to differentiate true inertia from pseudo inertia. Secondly, we consider how general practitioners and diabetologists, through their respective positions, can develop a synergy that is able to fight against inertia but that can especially, improve the glycaemic control of our patients.
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