Table 1: Main elements that must be taken into account in the relationship and communication with the patient with multimorbidity.
1 | -Focus on the specific patient and its context |
2 | -Focus on prioritizing problems with "energy" or "hot" with qualitative methodology (and these "hot" problems are not the most serious pathologies, or the most important, etc.): These are the "master problems". |
3 | -Focus on the continuity and history of the patient’s life |
4 | -Focus on integrality |
5 | -Focus on the prognosis, which is marked by psycho-social factors |
6 | -Focus on simplification: Reduce the team of professionals who care for the patient and in pharmacological prescription |