Realistic Medicine Flashcards
What are some of the goals of realistic medicine?
- Build a personalised approach to care
- Change our style to shared decision-making
- Reduce unnecessary variation in practice and outcomes
- Reduce harm and waste
- Manage risk better
- Become improvers and innovators
What are some possible secondary (drug) causes of constipation?
Aluminium-containing antacids; iron or calcium supplements.
Analgesics, such as opiates and nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs)
etc
In the NICE guidelines, what may NSAID chronic use be associated with in CKD patients?
-Progression of disease
What does morphine and opiate use do to the risk of fracture development?
Increases it
List some conditions that data suggests may be overdiagnosed
Prostate and thyroid cancers,
Asthma,
Chronic kidney disease, ADHD
What are some common abnormalities found on scans of asymptomatic people?
Disk bulging
Disk degeneration
Shoulder abnormalities etc
What are some methods for imrpoving and innovating in medicine?
-Reflection
