To the Editor: In their editorial commenting on our viewpoint article on Team Care Arrangements (TCAs), Harris and colleagues acknowledge a number of problems with TCAs and a lack of evidence for their effectiveness. However, they state that “the idea of team care still has merit” and that although there is “ample room for improvement in the current process”, they “cannot agree with Hartigan et al’s radical prescription to replace TCAs with patient summaries”.1
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- 1 Interchange General Practice, Canberra, ACT.
- 2 School of General Practice, Rural and Indigenous Health Care, Australian National University Medical School, Canberra, ACT.
- 3 Academic Unit of General Practice and Community Health, Australian National University Medical School, Canberra, ACT.
- 1. Harris MF, Chan BC, Dennis SM. Coordination of care for patients with chronic disease [editorial]. Med J Aust 2009; 191: 85-86. <MJA full text>
- 2. Hartigan PA, Soo TM, Kljakovic M. Do Team Care Arrangements address the real issues in the management of chronic disease? Med J Aust 2009; 191: 99-100. <MJA full text>