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Author : Linda L. Gertson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (133 download)
Download or read book An Exploration of Factors Influencing Patient Clinical Decision-making written by Linda L. Gertson and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Pieter Kubben
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319997130
Total Pages : 219 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (199 download)
Download or read book Fundamentals of Clinical Data Science written by Pieter Kubben and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-12-21 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This open access book comprehensively covers the fundamentals of clinical data science, focusing on data collection, modelling and clinical applications. Topics covered in the first section on data collection include: data sources, data at scale (big data), data stewardship (FAIR data) and related privacy concerns. Aspects of predictive modelling using techniques such as classification, regression or clustering, and prediction model validation will be covered in the second section. The third section covers aspects of (mobile) clinical decision support systems, operational excellence and value-based healthcare. Fundamentals of Clinical Data Science is an essential resource for healthcare professionals and IT consultants intending to develop and refine their skills in personalized medicine, using solutions based on large datasets from electronic health records or telemonitoring programmes. The book’s promise is “no math, no code”and will explain the topics in a style that is optimized for a healthcare audience.
Author : William Ralph Garris
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (511 download)
Download or read book What Influences Patients to Change? written by William Ralph Garris and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The United States' aging population increasingly requires the medical community to address chronic disease management, rather than the treatment of acute conditions. Management of long-term health concerns relies heavily on the active participation of the patient, yet insight into patient motivations is lacking. A review of the literature revealed that most medical research into the patient as a person has addressed factors related to non-compliance, such as demographics, compliance with specific therapeutic regimens, and external factors such as pill shape and color. Research into the health decision-making process from the perspective of the patient was found to be generally absent in the literature. In an effort to reduce that void, 21 people diagnosed within the past six months with Type 2 diabetes met with the researcher three times over a period of six months and were interviewed as to the factors that were influencing their decisions to make changes to their lifestyle in response to diabetes. Analysis of the data generated by these interviews revealed four categories that influenced health decision-making. These factors that emerged were (a) the degree of emotional upset, termed disequilibrium following their diagnosis with diabetes; (b) varying knowledge about their illness that could be described as factual knowledge, emotional knowledge, and experiential knowledge; (c) differing perceptions of empowerment over their illness, broadly categorized as self-agency; (d) and the sense of purpose that inspired their efforts toward change. The interrelationships among these categories are presented as a theory of health decision-making, grounded in the perspective of the patient. The new theory is compared with existing explanations for health decision-making. The paper ends with a discussion about the implications of these findings for healthcare professionals, the limitations of naturalistic research, and suggests directions for future study.
Author : Rachel Walton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (122 download)
Download or read book An Exploration of Factors which Influence the Decision-making Processes of Women Aged Sixty and Above when Individuals are Faced with a Medical Treatment Decision written by Rachel Walton and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Suzanne Kathleen Steginga
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (775 download)
Download or read book An Exploration of Men's Decision Making and Decisional Conflict After Localised Prostate Cancer written by Suzanne Kathleen Steginga and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abstract: The aim of this thesis is to describe how men with localised prostate cancer make decisions about their medical treatments, to describe the psychological and decision-related adjustment of these men over time, and to identify what variables predict decision-related adjustment. Chapter 1 reviews the medical context of localised prostate cancer and factors that influence men's decision making in this context. It is concluded that owing to ongoing uncertainty about the optimal medical treatment for this cancer and the substantial negative quality of life effects of treatments, how men make decisions in this context is an important research question. Further, although men with prostate cancer are high seekers of medical treatment information, knowledge about how men use such information and actually make this treatment decision is limited. -- Chapter 2 discusses research approaches currently applied to patient decision making: first, a social interaction approach encompassing the interaction between the patient and their physician and the social context influencing this interaction (Charles, Gafni, & Whelan, 1999); and second, normative decision theory (Shafir & Tversky, 1992; von Neumann & Morgenstern, 1947). The Heuristic-Systematic Processing model (Chaiken, 1980) is then proposed as a theoretical framework for investigating patient decision making that includes both systematic and non-systematic decision strategies. -- Chapter 3 reviews applied decision research in cancer, and presents an overview of research findings regarding patients' preferences for involvement in decision making, the relationship between decisional involvement and psychological adjustment, and decisional support interventions. Research on adjustment to cancer is discussed and the need for further research about men's psychological and decision-related adjustment after localised prostate cancer is identified. Finally, a multivariate analysis of decision-related adjustment for men with localised prostate cancer based on the stress and coping framework of Lazarus and Folkman (1984) is proposed. -- Chapter 4 describes Study 1 that was an experiment to investigate the utility of the Heuristic-Systematic Processing model (HSM) in explaining low desire for involvement in decision making about prostate cancer treatments as an example of use of the expert opinion heuristic. Using a hypothetical decision scenario about localised prostate cancer it was found that a low desire for involvement in decision making by men was predicted by a high belief in powerful others controlling health, a low belief in the self being responsible for good health, a high preference for black and white thinking, and a lower level of education. This study provides preliminary support for use of the HSM in this context and for the conceptualisation of decision deferral as the expert opinion heuristic. -- Chapter 5 introduces and describes the method of Study 2 that was a descriptive, prospective study of men's decision making after an actual diagnosis of localised prostate cancer. This method allowed for an analysis of men's decision making that includes both systematic and non-systematic processes, and for further investigation of the utility of the HSM in explaining decision behaviour. In addition, a multivariate approach was used to describe men's physical, psychological and decision-related adjustment over time, and to identify psychological predictors of decision-related adjustment. -- Chapter 6 describes men's use of systematic processing as limited and the use of non-systematic processes, such as lay beliefs and heuristics, as pervasive. It is concluded that patients do not utilise information about medical treatments in a comprehensive or systematic way when making treatment decisions and that patients' decision making is biased by their prior beliefs about cancer and health. A framework is outlined to demonstrate how the results of Study 1 and 2 support the application of the HSM to decision making about prostate cancer with particular reference to the role of beliefs about the physician, health locus of control, and uncertainty about the treatment decision in influencing decision strategies. -- Chapter 7 describes men's physical, psychological and decision-related adjustment over time, and concludes that decision-related distress is high but psychological distress in general is low. Decisional conflict at diagnosis and at twelve months concurrently, and at two months prospectively, was predicted by dispositional optimism; and this effect was mediated by the man's proximal cognitive appraisal of the impact of the cancer. It is concluded that decisional conflict is a person's cognitive judgment of the treatment decision that is generated by similar processes to that of the psychological distress that follows a cancer diagnosis. Conclusions and implications of these studies for future research in this area are summarised in Chapter 8.
Author : Debra de Silva
Publisher : The Health Foundation
ISBN 13 : 1906461406
Total Pages : 78 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (64 download)
Download or read book Helping people share decision making written by Debra de Silva and published by The Health Foundation. This book was released on 2012 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Michael A. Diefenbach
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1493934864
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (939 download)
Download or read book Handbook of Health Decision Science written by Michael A. Diefenbach and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-09-26 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive reference delves into the complex process of medical decision making—both the nuts-and-bolts access and insurance issues that guide choices and the cognitive and affective factors that can make patients decide against their best interests. Wide-ranging coverage offers a robust evidence base for understanding decision making across the lifespan, among family members, in the context of evolving healthcare systems, and in the face of life-changing diagnosis. The section on applied decision making reviews the effectiveness of decision-making tools in healthcare, featuring real-world examples and guidelines for tailored communications with patients. Throughout, contributors spotlight the practical importance of the field and the pressing need to strengthen health decision-making skills on both sides of the clinician/client dyad. Among the Handbook’s topics: From laboratory to clinic and back: connecting neuroeconomic and clinical mea sures of decision-making dysfunctions. Strategies to promote the maintenance of behavior change: moving from theoretical principles to practices. Shared decision making and the patient-provider relationship. Overcoming the many pitfalls of communicating risk. Evidence-based medicine and decision-making policy. The internet, social media, and health decision making. The Handbook of Health Decision Science will interest a wide span of professionals, among them health and clinical psychologists, behavioral researchers, health policymakers, and sociologists.
Author : Angela Coulter
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780954896812
Total Pages : 277 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (968 download)
Download or read book Patient-focused interventions written by Angela Coulter and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Carol J. Green
Publisher : Prentice Hall
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)
Download or read book Critical Thinking in Nursing written by Carol J. Green and published by Prentice Hall. This book was released on 2000 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Helping today's nursing professional acquire essential critical thinking skills for solving both common and more complex health problems, this innovative and insightful workbook contains 92 real-life cases which address all aspects of nursing care (i.e., assessment, analyzing data, planning care, evaluating benefits and possible consequences of care), and demonstrate the cognitive and affective components that influence critical thinking. KEY TOPICS: Contains an introduction to critical thinking, an historical overview of critical thinking, and an in-depth discussion on the affective and cognitive components of critical thinking. Uses critical thinking language throughout; bases all material on critical thinking theory; and fosters both attitude and cognitive critical thinking within each case. Organizes case studies by major nursing specialties--adult health, community and home-care, maternal-newborn, pediatrics, and mental health nursing--and presents many activities and questions within each case to stimulate critical thinking skills. Includes practice sessions, detailed chapter summaries, and a book/Internet link that provides regularly updated material. MARKET: For nurses specializing in adult health, community and home-care, maternal-newborn, pediatrics, and mental health.
Author : Debra Nestel
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 981153344X
Total Pages : 1757 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (115 download)
Download or read book Clinical Education for the Health Professions written by Debra Nestel and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-07-19 with total page 1757 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book compiles state-of-the art and science of health professions education into an international resource showcasing expertise in many and varied topics. It aligns profession-specific contributions with inter-professional offerings, and prompts readers to think deeply about their educational practices. The book explores the contemporary context of health professions education, its philosophical and theoretical underpinnings, whole of curriculum considerations, and its support of learning in clinical settings. In specific topics, it offers approaches to assessment, evidence-based educational methods, governance, quality improvement, scholarship and leadership in health professions education, and some forecasting of trends and practices. This book is an invaluable resource for students, educators, academics and anyone interested in health professions education.
Author : Atul Gawande
Publisher : Metropolitan Books
ISBN 13 : 1429972106
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)
Download or read book Complications written by Atul Gawande and published by Metropolitan Books. This book was released on 2003-04-01 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A brilliant and courageous doctor reveals, in gripping accounts of true cases, the power and limits of modern medicine. Sometimes in medicine the only way to know what is truly going on in a patient is to operate, to look inside with one's own eyes. This book is exploratory surgery on medicine itself, laying bare a science not in its idealized form but as it actually is -- complicated, perplexing, and profoundly human. Atul Gawande offers an unflinching view from the scalpel's edge, where science is ambiguous, information is limited, the stakes are high, yet decisions must be made. In dramatic and revealing stories of patients and doctors, he explores how deadly mistakes occur and why good surgeons go bad. He also shows us what happens when medicine comes up against the inexplicable: an architect with incapacitating back pain for which there is no physical cause; a young woman with nausea that won't go away; a television newscaster whose blushing is so severe that she cannot do her job. Gawande offers a richly detailed portrait of the people and the science, even as he tackles the paradoxes and imperfections inherent in caring for human lives. At once tough-minded and humane, Complications is a new kind of medical writing, nuanced and lucid, unafraid to confront the conflicts and uncertainties that lie at the heart of modern medicine, yet always alive to the possibilities of wisdom in this extraordinary endeavor. Complications is a 2002 National Book Award Finalist for Nonfiction.
Author : Tracy Levett-Jones
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781488616396
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (163 download)
Download or read book Clinical Reasoning written by Tracy Levett-Jones and published by . This book was released on 2017-09-08 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An Australian text designed to address the key area of clinical reasoning in nursing practice. Using a series of authentic scenarios, Clinical Reasoning guides students through the clinical reasoning process while challenging them to think critically about the nursing care they provide. With scenarios adapted from real clinical situations that occurred in healthcare and community settings, this edition continues to address the core principles for the provision of quality care and the prevention of adverse patient outcomes.
Author : Carl Thompson
Publisher : Elsevier Health Sciences
ISBN 13 : 9780443070761
Total Pages : 199 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (77 download)
Download or read book Clinical Decision Making and Judgement in Nursing written by Carl Thompson and published by Elsevier Health Sciences. This book was released on 2002 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book will give a critical overview of the current research literature regarding the topic of clinical decision making and judgement in nursing. This is in contrast to other texts which either rely on anecdotal evidence to justify their approach, or focus on medical (rather than nurse) decision making. The text aims to help individuals apply different techniques to practice, aiming for a 'non-academic' style which will be easy for readers to understand. Both the editors are researchers in the field of nurse decision making and have considerable experience teaching the subject on third level diploma/degree, masters level and post-registration nursing courses. This text is therefore unique in drawing together both the research (current as well as that which has already been published) and practical experience of implementing techniques in practice.
Author : Sharon E. Straus
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1444357255
Total Pages : 213 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (443 download)
Download or read book Knowledge Translation in Health Care written by Sharon E. Straus and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2011-08-24 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Health care systems worldwide are faced with the challenge of improving the quality of care. Providing evidence from health research is necessary but not sufficient for the provision of optimal care and so knowledge translation (KT), the scientific study of methods for closing the knowledge-to-action gap and of the barriers and facilitators inherent in the process, is gaining significance. Knowledge Translation in Health Care explains how to use research findings to improve health care in real life, everyday situations. The authors define and describe knowledge translation, and outline strategies for successful knowledge translation in practice and policy making. The book is full of examples of how knowledge translation models work in closing the gap between evidence and action. Written by a team of authors closely involved in the development of knowledge translation this unique book aims to extend understanding and implementation worldwide. It is an introductory guide to an emerging hot topic in evidence-based care and essential for health policy makers, researchers, managers, clinicians and trainees.
Author : Helen Streubert Speziale
Publisher : Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
ISBN 13 : 0781796008
Total Pages : 496 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (817 download)
Download or read book Qualitative Research in Nursing written by Helen Streubert Speziale and published by Lippincott Williams & Wilkins. This book was released on 2011 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Qualitative Research in Nursing is a user-friendly text that systematically provides a sound foundation for understanding a wide range of qualitative research methodologies, including triangulation. It approaches nursing education, administration, and practice and gives step-by-step details to instruct students on how to implement each approach. Features include emphasis on ethical considerations and methodological triangulation, instrument development and software usage; critiquing guidelines and questions to ask when evaluating aspects of published research; and tables of published research that offer resources for further reading"--Provided by publisher.
Author : Elspeth Finch
Publisher : Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
ISBN 13 : 9780781742412
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (424 download)
Download or read book Physical Rehabilitation Outcome Measures written by Elspeth Finch and published by Lippincott Williams & Wilkins. This book was released on 2002 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The revised and expanded second edition of this easy-to-use manual reflects current methods used by today's rehabilitation professionals to establish and measure outcomes. Chapters cover the development of an outcome measure plan, how to choose the appropriate outcome measure, measure properties and terms used in review of measures, the application of outcome measures to individual clients, and how outcome data can be used in client programme planning and evaluation. New to this edition are: a new template for reviewing outcome measures, updated terminology, case histories, and a new appendix including a critical appraisal form. A dual-platform CD-ROM accompanying the book contains a new template for reviewing outcome measures, revised terminology and reviews and references for over 70 measures.
Author : Institute of Medicine
Publisher : National Academies Press
ISBN 13 : 030909643X
Total Pages : 277 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (9 download)
Download or read book Building a Better Delivery System written by Institute of Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2005-10-20 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a joint effort between the National Academy of Engineering and the Institute of Medicine, this books attempts to bridge the knowledge/awareness divide separating health care professionals from their potential partners in systems engineering and related disciplines. The goal of this partnership is to transform the U.S. health care sector from an underperforming conglomerate of independent entities (individual practitioners, small group practices, clinics, hospitals, pharmacies, community health centers et. al.) into a high performance "system" in which every participating unit recognizes its dependence and influence on every other unit. By providing both a framework and action plan for a systems approach to health care delivery based on a partnership between engineers and health care professionals, Building a Better Delivery System describes opportunities and challenges to harness the power of systems-engineering tools, information technologies and complementary knowledge in social sciences, cognitive sciences and business/management to advance the U.S. health care system.
