How Health Professionals Decide Patient Medication Flashcards
What can taking a diagnoses help with?
- Knowing how to treat a disease
- Explain future prospects for patient prognosis
- Provide an explanation of why they feel how they are
- Provide advice on what to do of things go wrong
- Patient may be able to gain financial help
How is a diagnosis formed?
Taking patients history = what symptoms does the patient experience
Examination = signs/findings on examination that could indicate abnormalities
Investigations = what do tests reveal
What is differential diagnoses?
A working list of all possible diagnoses. This helps narrow down possible diagnoses.
What is a Curb - 65 score?
A way of measuring the severity of community acquired pneumonia
What does a patients treatment depend on?
- Diagnosis
- Severity of condition
How do we work out the severity of the illness?
History
- How severe symptoms are
- Is the patient limited from doing anything?
What are national guidelines?
NICE, BNF
What are local guidelines?
Availability of drugs. I.e microguides
What is the hierarchy of research evidence? (Top to bottom)
National guidelines Hospital guidelines Systematic reviews Randomised controlled trials Other research studies
What is research evidence based on?
Best research evidence available
Clinical expertise
Patient values
What is the structure of taking a medical history?
Presenting complaint History of presenting complaint Past medical history Drug history Social history Systematic enquiry
What is Sensitisation?
Sensitisation is the increasing immune response to the repeated exposure of an allergen.
Which type of documentation will communicate to the GP any changes medication? (patient being discharged from hospital)
The TTO is prescribed by hospital doctors to clearly document to the GP what has happened to a patient’s medications whilst they were in hospital.
