HaDSoc Definitions Flashcards
Clinical governance.
Framework through which NHS organisations are accountable for continuously improving the quality and safeguarding high standards of care by creating an environment in which excellence in clinical care with flourish.
Equity.
Everyone with same needs gets same care.
Inequitable care.
Patients across England vary in the extent to which they receive high quality care and in access to care.
Adverse event.
An injury cased by medical management and prolongs hospitalisation, produces a disability, or both.
Preventable adverse event.
An adverse event that could have been prevented given the current state of medical knowledge.
Clinical audit.
Quality improvement process that seeks to improve patient care and outcomes through systematic review of care against criteria and implementation of change.
Valid.
Measure what they’re supposed to measure.
Reliable.
Measure things consistently.
Evidence-based medicine.
Integration of individual clinical expertise with best available external clinical evidence from systematic research.
Social class.
Segment of population distinguished from others by similarities in labour market position and property relations.
Ethnicity.
Identification with a social group - membership of a collectivity - on the basis of shared values, beliefs, customs, traditions, language, and lifestyle.
Inequality.
When things are different.
Inequity.
Inequalities that are unfair and avoidable.
Biographical disruption.
Key concept identifying chronic illness as a major disruptive experience.
Narrative reconstruction.
Process of reconstructing shattered self to explain appearance of illness.
Stigma.
Negatively defined condition, attribute, trait, or behaviour conferring deviant status.
Discreditable stigma.
Nothing seen, stigma yet to be revealed.
Discredited stigma.
Physically visible characteristics sets patient apart so they’re discredited and affects behaviour of patient and those around them.
Enacted stigma.
Discrimination has happened, prejudice and disadvantage.
Felt stigma.
Fear of enacted stigma, feel shame without actual discrimination.
Medical model of disability.
Change from medical norms.
Social model of disability.
Form of social oppression.
Impairment.
Abnormalities in structure of functioning body.
Disability.
Performance of activities.
Handicap.
Broader social and psychological consequences of living with impairment or disability.
Patient-centred care.
Focus on patient’s concerns.
HRQoL.
Health related quality of life. Quality of life in clinical medicine presents the functional effect of an illness and its consequent therapy upon a patient, as perceived by the patient.
PROM.
Patient-reported outcome measures.
