Soci 321: First Midterm Flashcards
Wertz and Wertz
Changing roles of midwives and doctors in the 19th century
1650-1850
continuous and substanial decline in mortality attributged to midwives improving their practices
1895-1910 then 1910-1935
small decline initially due to less deadly strain in strep throat
then introduction of doctors with poor education and unnecessary risky interventions
1935 unitl today
introduction of drugs and improvements of obstetrics care
Farmer
medical ethics: everyone has a right to universal health care and need to provide care to the most vulnerable and disempower
local standards of care
justification of HIV researchers to not providing drugs when doing research in developing countries
Berg
medical practice is a cognitive, asymmetrical model and doctors use medical disposals to take historical data and results and turn it into a solvable problem
DEFINE medical disposal
A limited set of actions in which the doctors provide a sufficient set of answers/treatment to a set of questions
They are constructed via biological and social factors
Conclusion of Berg’s Article
Need to develop routines that adequately create a frame of reference in which to use medical disposals
Timmerman
How the medical profession manages the potential of clinical, practical guidelines to expand it’s power while dealing with the potential that these guidelines will weaken autonomy
How do Doctors claim jurisdiction over the medical practice?
the profession sets educational standards, ethical codes, hospital and patient record guidelines and performance standards
Evidence Based Medicine
the conscientious, explicit, and judicious use of current best evidence in making decisions about the care of individual patients
Biomedical Knowledge
Combination of patient history and results.
does not necessarily dictate medical practice. Medical criteria and disposal options are modified and reconstructed in order to align them with the transformation.
Bio-K cannot be considered the beacon that guides the construction of medical disposals in clinical practice
two major features of EBM & Issue of EBM
1) epidemiological findings, RCT’s 2) clinical guidelines
ISSUE: real people don’t look like epidemiological studies
DEFINE clinical guidelines
systematically developed statements to assist practitioner and patient decisions about appropriate health care for specific clinical circumstances
Example of Clinical Guidelines (& their flexibility)
Ultrasound guidleines have been proven to be ineffective in reducing morbidity and less interventions
motives for guidelines (4)
o Economic motives
o A non-adherence to guidelines creates issues in external validation of its jurisdiction
o Hold practitioners financially accountable
o Third party funders create financial incentive to follow guidelines: therefor it is a tool of accountability
Timmerman conclusion of guidelines
Guidelines don’t change behavior!
Can standardization be achieved?
RCT’S and EBM’s are based on population wide results .. an individual person is not a population wide average
- you can’t return a person the same was a tv
- certain surgeons prefer certain disposals
DEFINE supply sensitive care
Health care to a certain diagnosis is in response to the supply within that given health care facility
Ex: All Hip Fractures require hospitalization. But for other medical discharges, the rate of discharge is based on bed supply
DEFINE Preference sensitive care
The amount and type of care is sensitive to the preference of the physician and the patients
EX: As demonstrated in Fig. 2 of the autonomy to accountability slides; rates of surgery for hip replacement are consistent across 4 Florida hospitals BUT huge variation within knee replacement and back surgery.
McKinlay’s 7 Stages of Medical Innovation
(PPPS,RCT,D,E)
+ example of hormone therapy
- Promising Report
- Professional or Organization Adoption
- Public Acceptance and third-party endorsement (gov’t and insurance companies begin to pay)
- Standard procedure and observational reports
- Randomized Control Trial (gold standard)
- Professional Denunciation
- Erosion/Discredit