Week 1 Flashcards
Sequence of a typical patient encounter
- Medical interview
- Examine the patient; physical exam
- Perform testing
- Determine the diagnoses
- Develop a plan with the patient
- Patient education and counseling
Disease
– disruption in normal biological function
- Objective – eg. abnormal test results
- Defined by scientists/physicians
- Within a biomedical context
Illness
– a change from patient’s idea of “healthy”
- Subjective
- Defined by the patient
- Within a psychosocial context
- might not be in the biomedical context
Disease-centered Interview
• Physician determines agenda
• Patient’s concerns are secondary
• Solely focused on diagnosis and treatment of the diagnosed disease
• Less focus on patient experience with illness
• Little understanding of patient emotions
• Limited development of physician-patient relationship
* a side-effect of looking through only the biomedical lense
Illness-centered interview
- Allows patient to lead and direct conversation
- Patients have multiple, complex reasons to seek care (mix of biological and psychosocial)
- Encourages patient to express what is most important
- Recognizes the psychosocial context
- Recognizes patient thoughts and emotions
Benefits of a Patient-Centered Approach
- Improved patient understanding
- Improved patient adherence to medication
- Improved health outcomes (HTN, depression, diabetes)
- Decreased malpractice claims
Limitations of Patient-Centered Interviewing
- Medical emergencies (time constriction)
- Severe alterations of mental status (can’t participate meaningfully in this type of interaction)
Components of the Medical Interview
- Introduction (Introduction)
- Chief Concern (CC)
- History of Present Illness (HPI)
- Past Medical History (PMH)
- Family History (FH)
- Social History (SH)
- Review of Systems (ROS)
Patient Centered Interview – Kalamazoo Model
- Build a relationship
- Open the discussion
- Gather Information
- Understand the patient’s perspective
- Share Information
- Reach Agreement
- Provide Closure
Interview Introduction
Wash/sanitize your hands
Greet the patient and show interest in them as a person
Ask the patient what he/she wishes to be called
Introduce self and role as a medical student
Explain that the physician will see the patient following the student interview.
Obtain the patient’s permission for the interview
History of Present Illness (HPI)
- Location of sensation
- Quality
- Severity (0 to 10 scale, or other method)
- Timing (time of day, frequency)
- Context (environment, preceding activity to sensation i.e. car crash, exercise, meals)
- Associated symptoms
- Modifying factors (what makes symptom better or worse)
- Treatment (“have you tried any medications?”)
- Impact of illness → can indicate what the patient is most concerned about; can reveal information that the patient might not have otherwise shared without this prompt
- Patient perception
- Summarization
Confidentiality
trust that information will not be disclosed
Exceptions to confidentiality
- consent to disclose
- harm to others/self
Tarasoff Key Elements
- High probability of harm
- Serious harm
- Intervention likely to prevent harm
- Last resort
- Illegal conduct - about to break the law
Criteria for disclosure of confidential info
- High probability
- Serious harm
- Disclosure likely to prevent harm
- No alternatives
Biomedical model
Individual level, biological mechanisms, health as absence of disease
- negative notions of disease as we saw in what is health lecture
Behavioral model
Health and illness consequence of individual or household actions and beliefs
Political economy approach
Health and illness are an outcome of political, social, and
economic structures and relations
models of health and disease
- biomedical model
- behavioral model
- political economy model
effect of federal war on poverty on asthma
Assuaged poverty-hunger, poor health, economic insecurity, and lack of opportunity for 10 million (assuage: make (an unpleasant feeling) less intense)
improvements in asthma due to
- The replacement of housing stock
- Medicaid
- Establishment of an outpatient allergy and asthma clinics at
- Charity Hospital
- Availability of a new generation of asthma drugs.
social violence
social science of disease; structural differences that provide harm to groups
Epidemiology
The study of the distribution and determinants (i.e., causes) of health and diseases, morbidity, injuries, disability, and mortality in populations
Objectives of Epidemiology
- Identify the etiology or cause of a disease or condition and the relevant risk factors
- Determine the extent of disease found in the community
- Study the natural history and prognosis of disease
- Evaluate existing and newly developed preventive and therapeutic measures and modes of health care delivery
- Provide the data and foundation for developing public policy relating to disease prevention and health promotion
Descriptive epidemiology
distribution of health and diseases, morbidity, injuries, disability, and mortality in terms of person, place and time
Analytic epidemiology
determinants of health and diseases, morbidity, injuries, disability, and mortality