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Public health Flashcards

1
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What does consent have to be? (3)

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  • Voluntary
  • Informed
  • With capacity
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What would you tell the patient to inform their consent (4)

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  • What is involved
  • Risks
  • Benefits
  • Other options available
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How would you tell if a patient has capacity (4)

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  • They understand information
  • They can retain information
  • They can weigh up the information
  • They can make an informed decision based on information provided
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What do you do if patient does not have capacity (3)

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  • Decision made in best interest of patient (include family members)
  • Advance statement
  • Attorney - someone assigned to make decisions for them
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What if the patient is below 16 (3)

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  • Fraser-Gillicks guideline
  • Asses if patient is deemed mature and competent enough
  • If not parents decision
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When can you legally break patient confidentiality (3)

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  • To protect the patient from harm (eg. abuse)
  • To protect the general public from harm (eg. infectious disease or terrorism)
  • When patient gives you consent
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What is compliance

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  • The extent to which the patients behaviour coincides with medical or health advice
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What is Adherence

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  • The extent to which the patients actions match agreed recommendations (more patient centred)
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What is Concordance

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  • The expectation that patients will take part in treatment decisions and have say in consultation
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What are the reasons for non-adherence (3)

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Unintentional
- Forgetting
- Misunderstanding
Intentional
- Patients beliefs
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What are the reasons unsafe practice may occur (4)

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  • Poor communication
  • Training problems
  • Staffing/staff incompetence
  • Human error
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What is sensitivity

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  • Proportion of people with the disease that are correctly identified
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What is specificity

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  • Proportion of people without the disease who are correctly excluded
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What is incidence

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  • The rate at which new cases occur in a specified time period (often as a rate per 100,000)
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What is prevalence

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  • The proportion of a population who have a disease at any point in time (%)
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What is an ecological study

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  • A study using population level data (eg. mortality)
17
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What is a cross sectional study

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  • Look at the population at any point in time (eg. prevalence)
18
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What is a case control study

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  • Retrospective study that compares people with and without disease to see if they were exposed to a certain agent
19
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What is a cohort study

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  • Follows a group of people over time to see if they are exposed to an agent/if they get the disease
20
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What is a random control trial

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  • Intervention given and compared to a control
21
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What is primary prevention

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  • Attempting to stop disease from occurring in first place by eliminating risk factors
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What is secondary prevention

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  • Detecting a disease as soon as possible to alter progression/outcome
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What is tertiary prevention

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  • Trying to slow down the progression of a disease/prevent re-occurrence/exacerbations
24
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What is the medicalisation hypothesis

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  • The idea that doctors see everything medically, so a condition may appear medical in nature when actually caused by a social factor
25
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What is the inverse care law

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  • Availability of good healthcare varies inversely with need for it
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What is the prevention paradox

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  • The idea that a large number of people with low risk for a disease may contribute more cases than a small number of people at high risk
27
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What is the doctrine of dual affect

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  • If you administer a drug to relieve pain in doses that you know may be fatal, then provided your intention is not to shorten life but to relieve pain, the administration is not unlawful.
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What is relative risk

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  • The risk of an event in an exposed group divided by the risk in a non-exposed group
29
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What is absolute risk difference/reduction/excess

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  • Risk in an exposed group - risk in non-exposed group
30
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What is the number needed to treat

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  • Number of patients needed to treat in order to cure one extra person
  • 1 over absolute risk reduction
  • Also number needed to harm is same

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