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Author Reach, Gérard, author

Title Clinical inertia : a critique of medical reason / Gérard Reach
Published Cham : Springer, [2014]
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Description 1 online resource (xxii, 142 pages) : illustrations
Contents Introduction -- Definitions -- The evidence : the gap between clinical guidelines and clinical reality -- Determinants and explanatory models of clinical inertia -- The physician and evidence-based medicine -- To do or not to do : a critique of medical reason -- Overcoming true clinical inertia -- Conclusion : time for medical reason
Foreword; Nonadherence by Patients; Nonadherence by Doctors; Conclusion; References; Foreword to the French Edition; References; Contents; 1: Introduction; Four Perspectives; References; 2: Definitions; Clinical Inertia; Therapeutic Inertia and Clinical Inertia; Clinical Practice Guidelines; Evidence-Based Medicine; Evidence Practice Gap; Medical Error; What Is Not Clinical Inertia; Formal Definition of Clinical Inertia; Definition: Physician Behavior Falls Under Clinical Inertia If and Only If; References; 3: The Evidence: The Gap Between Guidelines and Clinical Reality
Introduction: Highlighting the Existence of the Phenomenon and Its ConsequencesConsequences of Clinical Inertia; Analysis of Clinical Inertia in Different Diseases; Diabetes; Clinical Inertia in Hospitals; Psychological Insulin Resistance; Clinical Inertia and Monitoring of Diabetic Patients; Hypertension; Description of Barriers to Treatment Intensification in the Case of Hypertension; Hyperlipidemia; Cardiovascular Risk Prevention; Other Conditions Where One Can Highlight the Clinical Inertia Phenomenon; Heart Failure; Management of Valvular Heart Disease
Complete Arrhythmia Due to Atrial FibrillationAsthma; Osteoporosis; References; 4: Determinants and Explanatory Models of Clinical Inertia; Determinants of Clinical Inertia; Initial Explanations: Denial, Exaggerated Use of "Soft Reasons" and Physician Lack of Training on the Principle of Titration; Competing Demands; The Effect of Uncertainty; Poor Appreciation of the Actual Situation of the Patient; Characteristics of the Physician; The Effect of Belonging to an Ethnic Minority and Being Disadvantaged; The Doctor, Her Patient and the Health Care System
Physician Clinical Inertia and Patient Nonadherence Theoretical Explanatory Models of Clinical Inertia; The Knowledge-Attitude-Behavior-Result Model; Barriers in Knowledge; Barriers in Attitudes; Barriers in Behavior; The Awareness-Agreement-Adoption-Adherence Model; A Symmetrical Model Involving Physician and Patient: The Management of Dyslipidemia in Women; Physician Guideline Compliance Model; Another Psychological Model Applied to Comprehension of Clinical Inertia: The Regulatory Focus Theory; References; 5: The Physician and Evidence-Based Medicine; A New Way to Practice Medicine
Objectives of Evidence-Based Medicine Data and Guidelines: Different Levels of Evidence; What Is Not Evidence-Based Medicine; Evidence-Based Medicine: Clinical Practice Assisted by the Development of Clinical Practice Guidelines; Clinical Practice in the Context of Evidence-Based Medicine; Clinical Practice Guidelines, Assistance in Medical Decisions in the Evidence-Based Medicine State of Mind; Evidence-Based Medicine, Medicine Practiced Within a Context of Uncertainty; Uncertainty Within the Field of Diagnosis; Bayes' Theorem; Uncertainty Within the Therapeutic Field
Summary Clinical practice guidelines were initially developed within the context of evidence-based medicine with the goal of putting medical research findings into practice. However, physicians do not always follow them, even when they seem to apply to the particular patient they have to treat. This phenomenon, known as clinical inertia, represents a significant obstacle to the efficiency of care and a major public health problem, the extent of which is demonstrated in this book. An analysis of its causes shows that it stems from a discrepancy between the objective, essentially statistical nature of
Analysis volksgezondheid
public health
kwaliteit van het leven
quality of life
geneeskunde
medicine
filosofie
philosophy
Medicine (General)
Geneeskunde (algemeen)
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed December 5, 2014)
Subject Medical logic.
Medicine -- Philosophy.
Medical ethics.
Logic.
Logic
Philosophy, Medical
Ethics, Medical
logic.
Public health & preventive medicine.
Philosophy.
Social issues & processes.
Medicine: general issues.
HEALTH & FITNESS -- Holism.
HEALTH & FITNESS -- Reference.
MEDICAL -- Alternative Medicine.
MEDICAL -- Atlases.
MEDICAL -- Essays.
MEDICAL -- Family & General Practice.
MEDICAL -- Holistic Medicine.
MEDICAL -- Osteopathy.
Logic
Medical ethics
Medical logic
Medicine -- Philosophy
Genre/Form Electronic books
Form Electronic book
Author Ratti, Claudia, translator
ISBN 9783319098821
3319098829
3319098810
9783319098814
Other Titles Intertie clinique. English