Pop Health and Ethics for Cardiovascular Block Flashcards
Doctors are allowed to act in ways others are not. What is that called?
Social permissions
3 special situations for doctors
- Power over patient
- privileged position in society, professional autonomy/self regulation
- reinforced by law
So why do we need ethics again? Two reasons:
- protect and respect patients
2. counter negative aspects of culture of medicine (the hidden curriculum)
do not cause or allow harm is called
Non-maleficence
Beneficence is:
provide help, do good
how to you respect someone’s autonomy?
get informed consent
how to you respect privacy?
confidentiality
Two tenants of informed consent
Informed
Voluntary choice
Doctors discussing a case, why is it NOT a breach of confidentiality?
Necessary good for the patient
3 ethically difficult situations:
- inadvertent breach of confidentiality
- patient non-consent (if anesthetized
- inappropriate procedure (miscommunication)
Feeling unsure what is right to do is called:
Moral confusion
Feeling unable to to what you know is right
Moral distress
Moral distress is:
feeling compelled to do what you think is wrong
Moral confusion is:
not sure what’s right or wrong
How to deal with moral confusion and distress?
- talk to peers
- advice from staff
- get more information
- acknowledge own feelings
- consider further action
How should you talk about patients? (3 ways)
- non-identifying
- purpose to learn
- respectfully
What’s the cause and effect study design called?
analytical
what is a cross-sectional design?
observational descriptive
what are clinical trials?
interventional analytical
what are case-control and cohort studies?
observational analytical
example of a descriptive observational?
Case study/series, ecological, cross-sectional
Which of the following are longitudinal? cohort cross-sectional case-control Case series/reports clinical trials ecological
Cohort and clinical trials
Which of the following are non-longitudinal? cohort cross-sectional case-control Case series/reports clinical trials ecological
ecological
cross-sectional
case-control
Case series/reports
What does non-longitudinal mean?
no follow-up, usually only one encounter
is cross sectional analytical?
Nope, descriptive
is there follow up in a cross sectional study?
No.