Week 5 Flashcards
4 Primary Ethical principles in medicine
1) Beneficience
2) Automony
3) Justice
4) Nonmalficence
What is meant by Beneficence?
Acting for the benefit of OTHERS
What is meant by Autonomy?
Respecting individual has the right to choose/refuse
Ability to make their own choices for their care
What is meant by Justice?
Fairness in terms of access and distribution of resources
What is meant by Non-maleficence?
DO NO HARM
Cause no unnecessary risks or needless harm to patients
Why is it important to develop a rapport with patients?
Relationship will determine QUALITY of info received and completeness of information
What are tenets of the Patient-centered clinical approach
Explore patient disease/illness experience
Understanding of WHOLE person not just the disease
Enhancing Doc/Patient relationship
Importance of confidentiality in healthcare?
Respect for patients and their privacy - don’t discuss them in public
Allows patients to discuss more sensitive topics with provider
Fosters sense of care-seeking - more willing to seek care
Prevent harm from coming to patients - lose jobs, etc.
Define a boundary in terms of patient-doctor relationship
Edge of appropriate, professional and clinical behavior
Why are boundaries a fine line?
Deciding what is considered exploitive or non-exploitive
What might be some instanced of boundary issues?
Treating family
Accepting gifts from patients
Provider ideology
Any sort of sexual conduct
Touch - necessary but ONLY WHEN necessary
Social gatherings - avoid on social media!
Referrals:
When to use?
When NOT to use?
1) ONLY if clear benefit to patient - if outside scope of practice of provider
2) NEVER to avoid death at facility (for statistical purposes)
3) If someone promises you charges/fee splitting - NOPE!
Ethical issues in patients refusing treatments?
When in doubt on treating a patient - autonomy wins out
Consent v. Assent
Consent: anyone over legal age of consent (>18yo)
Assent: more for minor to signal willingness to participate
Informed consent
Allowing patient to know all risks/benefits involved with refusal of care
Patient MUST posses proper decision making capacity in order to UNDERSTAND consequences
Consent must be obtained without coercion or manipulation
Define: population
Group of individuals who share common characteristic
Define: Sampling
Process of selecting subset group from a larger population for purpose of study
Define: sampling frame
List of individuals that are eligible for selection in research study
Pros to sampling frame
More confidence in generalized results of study as applied to a larger population
Sampling external validity
How well findings can be applied to other situations
Sampling Internal Validity
whether design, conduct, analysis of the study ITSELF answers the questions without bias
Subtypes of Sampling Categories:
1)
2)
1) Probability/Random Sampling
2) Non-probability/Nonrandom Sampling
Describe simple random sampling
Selection of individuals from population using random number generator
Describe Stratified random sampling
Divides population into SUBGROUPS based on certain characteristics
Random selection done of all subgroups