According to our recent research among physician specialists, the younger generation is more concerned with patient empowerment and support than the older generation.<\/p>\n
Although almost all specialists believe patients should be more directly involved in their care (96% Younger vs. 92% Older), there are some generational gaps around attitudes toward patient support, treatment decisions and information.<\/p>\n
The top two day-to-day challenges are the same for Younger and Older specialists. However, for Younger specialists, their number one challenge, lack of patient support to enable patients to play more of a self-management role (85%), stands out far above their number two, lack of coverage for best treatment options (63%); for Older specialists, these two items are equally challenging (73% and 77%, respectively). Furthermore, Younger specialists are much less satisfied with manufacturer patient support programs (PSPs) than their older counterparts (Younger 65% vs. Older 86%).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":6889,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,19],"tags":[],"country-icon":[45,44],"class_list":["post-6886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-survey-data","category-topical-data-usa","country-icon-canada","country-icon-united-states"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n