Open AccessPatient-centered management of hypothyroidism
Author(s) -
Sanjay Kalra,
Navneet Agarwal,
Rashmi Aggarwal,
Sameer Agarwal,
Sarita Bajaj,
Ganapathi Bantwal,
Ashok Kumar Das,
Sujoy Ghosh,
Pritam Gupta,
Deepak Khandelwal,
Vijay Negalur,
Banshi Saboo,
Rakesh Sahay,
Mangesh Tiwaskar,
AG Unnikrishnan
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
indian journal of endocrinology and metabolism
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.456
H-Index - 28
eISSN - 2230-9500
pISSN - 2230-8210
DOI - 10.4103/ijem.ijem_93_17
Subject(s) - scope (computer science) , medicine , relevance (law) , concomitant , patient care , patient education , focus (optics) , intensive care medicine , nursing , computer science , physics , optics , political science , law , programming language
This communication from the National Indian Patient-centered Thyroid management group (InPACT) deals with a novel, yet essential, aspect of hypothyroidism management. The authors describe the role and scope of patient-centered care in this condition. They focus on the relevance of a patient-centered clinical approach, which will help decide appropriate targets, as well as techniques to achieve those targets. Means of helping persons with hypothyroidism live a healthy life, such as education about precaution in concomitant food and medications intake, as well as sick day management, are discussed.