70 research outputs found
Helping to Support CPC+ Initiative to Integrate Behavioral Health Within Primary Care: A Team-Based Approach to Improving Depression Management
AIM:
The objective of this project is to increase the rate of documented successful treatment of depression for both new and established diagnoses of depression at Jefferson Internal Medicine Associates (JIMA) from 29% to 50% over 12 months.https://jdc.jefferson.edu/patientsafetyposters/1027/thumbnail.jp
Making Decisions In the Dark : Learning Through Uncertainty in Clinical Practice During COVID-19
PURPOSE: The purpose of this study was to explore how decision making and informal and incidental learning (IIL) emerged in the clinical learning environment (CLE) during the height of the Covid-19 pandemic. The authors\u27 specific interest was to better understand the IIL that took place among frontline physicians who had to navigate a CLE replete with uncertainty and complexity with the future goal of creating experiences for medical students that would simulate IIL and use uncertainty as a catalyst for learning.
METHOD: Using a modified constructivist, grounded theory approach, we describe physicians\u27 IIL while working during times of heightened uncertainty. Using the critical incident technique, we conducted 45-min virtual interviews with seven emergency department (ED) and five intensive care unit (ICU) physicians, who worked during the height of the pandemic. The authors transcribed and restoried each interview before applying inductive, comparative analysis to identify patterns, assertions, and organizing themes.
RESULTS: Findings showed that the burden of decision making for physicians was influenced by the physical, emotional, relational, and situational context of the CLE. The themes that emerged for decision making and IIL were interdependent. Prominent among the patterns for decision making were ways to simplify the problem by applying prior knowledge, using pattern recognition, and cross-checking with team members. Patterns for IIL emerged through trial and error, which included thoughtful experimentation, consulting alternative sources of information, accumulating knowledge, and poking at the periphery of clinical practice.
CONCLUSIONS: Complexity and uncertainty are rife in clinical practice and this study made visible decision-making patterns and IIL approaches that can be built into formal curricula. Making implicit uncertainty explicit by recognizing it, naming it, and practicing navigating it may better prepare learners for the uncertainty posed by the clinical practice environment
Policy challenges for the pediatric rheumatology workforce: Part I. Education and economics
For children with rheumatic conditions, the available pediatric rheumatology workforce mitigates their access to care. While the subspecialty experiences steady growth, a critical workforce shortage constrains access. This three-part review proposes both national and international interim policy solutions for the multiple causes of the existing unacceptable shortfall. Part I explores the impact of current educational deficits and economic obstacles which constrain appropriate access to care. Proposed policy solutions follow each identified barrier
Prediction of complicated disease course for children newly diagnosed with Crohn's disease: a multicentre inception cohort study
Stricturing and penetrating complications account for substantial morbidity and health-care costs in paediatric and adult onset Crohn’s disease. Validated models to predict risk for complications are not available, and the effect of treatment on risk is unknown
Descriptors for unprofessional behaviours of medical students: a systematic review and categorisation
Zum Stellenwert des Einsatzes von Kodierassistenzkräften an einer Unfallchirurgischen Abteilung einer Universitätsklinik - eine kritische Bestandsanalyse
Die komplexe proximale Humerusfraktur des geriatrischen Patienten - osteo-synthetischer Erhaltungsversuch oder sofort inverse Prothese?
Zum Stellenwert des Notchimpingments nach Ersatz des vorderen Kreuzbandes: Vergleichende Analyse zweier Operationstechniken
Stellt der VKB Ersatz einen protektiven Faktor hinsichtlich einer Gonarthroseentwicklung dar? Langzeitergebnisse einer prospektiven Studie
Zum Stellenwert der Tunnelaufweitung des tibialen Bohrkanals nach VKB Ersatz: mittelfristige Ergebnisse einer vergleichenden prospektiven Studie
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