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Group interventions offer effective and efficient ways to educate patients, treat illnesses, and facilitate healing and support for a variety of physical, emotional, and social challenges. Patients feel vulnerable and fearful when ill and value the opportunity to tell their narratives in cohesive groups. Group interventions can target specific diseases, symptoms, skill-building strategies, life stages, or vulnerable patient populations to help improve patient, disease, and health care outcomes within integrated health care settings and other specialty practices. In integrated care settings, group interventions inherently use multidisciplinary teams to deliver care at the highest level of each staff member’s training. When restructuring medical practices to include group medical visits, important considerations include thorough training of group facilitators, strong administrative support, adequate clinical space, and a navigable billing structure. In addition to professionally led groups, peer-led support groups can empower patients to adopt healthy behaviors. |
