PDF-(READ)-Medical Decision Making: A Physician\'s Guide

Decision making is a key activity perhaps the most important activity in the practice of healthcare Although physicians acquire a great deal of knowledge and specialised skills during their training and through their practice it is in the exercise of clinical judgement and its application to individual patients that the outstanding physician is distinguished This has become even more relevant as patients become increasingly welcomed as partners in a shared decision making process This book translates the research and theory from the science of decision making into clinically useful tools and principles that can be applied by clinicians in the field It considers issues of patient goals uncertainty judgement choice development of new information and family and social concerns in healthcare It helps to demystify decision theory by emphasizing concepts and clinical cases over mathematics and computation. Evolution Consulting & Research. May, 2016. 2. 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Introduction Counselors are often faced with situations that require sound ethical decision-making ability Determining the appropriate course to take when faced with a di31cult ethical dilemma can be Decision making is a key activity, perhaps the most important activity, in the practice of healthcare. Although physicians acquire a great deal of knowledge and specialised skills during their training and through their practice, it is in the exercise of clinical judgement and its application to individual patients that the outstanding physician is distinguished. This has become even more relevant as patients become increasingly welcomed as partners in a shared decision making process. This book translates the research and theory from the science of decision making into clinically useful tools and principles that can be applied by clinicians in the field. It considers issues of patient goals, uncertainty, judgement, choice, development of new information, and family and social concerns in healthcare. It helps to demystify decision theory by emphasizing concepts and clinical cases over mathematics and computation. Decision making is a key activity, perhaps the most important activity, in the practice of healthcare. Although physicians acquire a great deal of knowledge and specialised skills during their training and through their practice, it is in the exercise of clinical judgement and its application to individual patients that the outstanding physician is distinguished. This has become even more relevant as patients become increasingly welcomed as partners in a shared decision making process. This book translates the research and theory from the science of decision making into clinically useful tools and principles that can be applied by clinicians in the field. It considers issues of patient goals, uncertainty, judgement, choice, development of new information, and family and social concerns in healthcare. It helps to demystify decision theory by emphasizing concepts and clinical cases over mathematics and computation. An excellent resource for entry-level courses on bioethics for health care practitioners, law students, and physicians. --ChoiceDworkin\'s provocative arguments... will challenge readers who have come to accept the law\'s intrusion as a necessary response to biomedical advances. --New England Journal of MedicineImportant and refreshing. Dworkin\'s conclusions regarding the limited role of law (and especially legislation) may come as a surprise to many.... When popular and political views are almost evenly divided, looking to legislation for a solution is a mistake. --Walter WadlingtonThe ethical and social dilemmas associated with abortion, sterilization, assisted reproduction, genetics, death and dying, and biomedical research have led many to turn to the legal system for solutions. Rogert Dworkin argues that resort to law often overlooks the limitations of legal institutions, and he suggests a more limited use of the legal system will produce more effective resolution of bioethical dilemmas. This book clearly demonstrates how to best make medical decisions while incorporating clinical practice guidelines and decision support systems for electronic medical record systems.New to this edition is how medical decision making ideas are being incorporated into clinical decision support systems in electronic medical records and also how they are being used to shape practice guidelines and policies. This popular reference facilitates diagnostic and therapeutic decision making for a wide range of common and often complex problems faced in outpatient and inpatient medicine. Comprehensive algorithmic decision trees guide you through more than 250 disorders organized by sign, symptom, problem, or laboratory abnormality. The brief text accompanying each algorithm explains the key steps of the decision making process, giving you the clear, clinical guidelines you need to successfully manage even your toughest cases.An algorithmic format makes it easy to apply the practical, decision-making approaches used by seasoned clinicians in daily practice. Comprehensive coverage of general and internal medicine helps you successfully diagnose and manage a full range of diseases and disorders related to women\'s health, emergency medicine, urology, behavioral medicine, pharmacology, and much more.A Table of Contents arranged by organ system helps you to quickly and easily zero in on the information you need.More than a dozen new topics focus on the key diseases and disorders encountered in daily practice.Fully updated decision trees guide you through the latest diagnostic and management guidelines. Never before have the powerful techniques of decision analysis had more importance for patient and doctor. This book translates the major principles of medical decision making into clinically relevant and easy-to-understand terms. Filled with examples drawn from patient care and familiar games of chance, Making Medical Decisions teaches the reader how to feel confident about giving the best advice in the face of the inherent uncertainties of real-world medicine. Nearly half of us have already accompanied a relative or friend on their journey to the end of life. Or perhaps you’re among the 75 percent of Americans aged 65 and older who are dealing every day with one or more chronic medical conditions. “If only we’d understood, we would have made different choices.” That’s what people often say after days, months or even years of medical decision making for themselves or for a loved one. A perfect storm is peeking over the horizon. It is the inevitable clash of: 1) America’s aging population 2) the dwindling financial and human resources available to address their needs and 3) our pervasive lack of health literacy. As the patient in the patient-provider relationship, only you can preserve your right to informed consent and autonomy by taking the steps necessary to achieve health literacy and be a more skilled and effective decision maker. Only you can prepare your trusted loved ones to act as informed substitute decision makers, if the need ever arises. As importantly, only you can achieve the health literacy needed to do the best job possible as an advocate for someone else. What is essential to being an empowered patient, a decisive health care proxy or an engaged health care provider? HEALTH LITERACY. It’s recognizing when, how and where to access, process and understand basic health information and services needed to make informed choices. In the pages of THE 60-MINUTE GUIDE TO HEALTH LITERACY, you will find these common sense tools: * Reliable resources for health care information (hyperlinked in the Kindle version) * Step-by-step guides for shared decision making * Vital and effective documentation needed for any health care situation * A HELP Index for quick access to health literate action steps By downloading the Kindle version to your smartphone, you will have all the resources of THE 60-MINUTE GUIDE TO HEALTH LITERACY at your fingertips. In THE 60-MINUTE GUIDE TO HEALTH LITERACY, Jo Kline shares how to: * Preserve personal values with informed decision making * Assemble the best team of health care providers * Follow recommendations for preventive care * Maintain patient autonomy in a health care emergency * Practice the responsible use of medications * Make respectful and informed end-of-life decisions Preserving the right to informed consent and to receive competent and compassionate health care and end-of-life care is entirely dependent on the decision maker’s ongoing level of health literacy. If you don\'t know it already, you will soon learn that managing health care for yourself or a loved one is a journey. The 60-MINUTE GUIDE TO HEALTH LITERACY is the road map. ABOUT THE AUTHOR Attorney Jo Kline has been writing and speaking about health literacy, medical decision making and the meaning of legacy for over a decade—since serving as volunteer chair of Iowa’s largest hospice. Her books include The 60-Minute Guide to Health Literacy, The practical guide to Health Care Advance Directives, SO GROWS THE TREE – Creating an Ethical Will and her 2014 novel, EXIT, set in a small town hospice. Jo is also the author of a multistate Health Care Advance Directive that reflects contemporary medical conditions and treatment choices, and acts as a guide for medical decision making in any health care situation. Among other print and broadcast media, Jo has been featured in The New York Times, Reader’s Digest and The Philadelphia Inquirer. She is a frequent guest essayist for the Des Moines Register and contributor to online news outlets. do not want ambulance crews to revi nurse practitioner physician assistant) must form. FOR PATIENT TO COMPLETE after consultation with his or In the event that my heart or breathing stops and I am un Power of Attorney. end of life issues for . gp’s. Dr Cathryn Bogan. Consultant in Palliative Medicine. POA. 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