Getting Doctors to Listen: Ethics and Outcomes Data in Context (Hastings Center Studies in Ethics Series) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0878406549 ISBN 13: 9780878406548

Verlag: Georgetown University Press, 1998

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Comprises 14 contributions exploring how the implementation of outcomes data and practice guidelines is prone to stalling due to resistance to the data by its physician-users. Chapter topics include an historical perspective on the origins and significance of clinical practice guidelines, technology assessment, clinical judgment versus outcomes research, communication and physician accountability, and a case study of practice guidelines regarding otitis media with effusion. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

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This book examines why physicians are often surprisingly reluctant to follow guidelines for treating patients based on research data, assesses the merits of these concerns, and proposes ways of developing more useful data and more effective guidelines that would reduce their objections.

Interviews with doctors at four diverse medical centers revealed that moral concerns drive much of their resistance, and these ethical issues frequently overlap with worries about legal liability, financial incentives, the scientific validity of the data, and the objectivity of the issuer of the guidelines. This volume concludes that in order both to make effective use of scientific studies and to establish a better balance between statistical results and skilled observation in the practice of medicine, physicians need to participate in all phases of outcomes research.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Georgetown University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1998
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0878406549
• ISBN 13: 9780878406548
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 248
• Herausgeber: Boyle Philip J.
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