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Clinical Inertia : A Critique of Medical Reason / by Gérard Reach.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Reach, Gérard, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Medicine.
- Medicine--Philosophy.
- Public health.
- Medicine--Research.
- Quality of life.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource
- Contained In:
- Springer eBooks
- Place of Publication:
- Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2015.
- System Details:
- Mode of Access: World Wide Web.
- text file PDF
- Summary:
- Clinical practice guidelines were initially developed within the context of evidence-based medicine with the goal of putting medical research findings into practice. However, physicians do not always follow them, even when they seem to apply to the particular patient they have to treat. This phenomenon, known as clinical inertia, represents a significant obstacle to the efficiency of care and a major public health problem, the extent of which is demonstrated in this book. An analysis of its causes shows that it stems from a discrepancy between the objective, essentially statistical nature of evidence-based medicine on the one hand and the physician's own complex, subjective view (referred to here as “medical reason”) on the other. This book proposes a critique of medical reason that may help to reconcile the principles of evidence-based medicine and individual practice. The author is a diabetologist and Professor of Endocrinology, Diabetology and Metabolic Diseases at Paris 13 University. He has authored several books, including one to be published by Springer (Philosophy and Medicine series) under the title: The Mental Mechanisms of Patient Adherence to Long Term Therapies, Mind and Care.
- Contents:
- Introduction
- Definitions
- The Evidence: The Gap Between Clinical Guidelines and Reality
- Determinants and Explanatory Models of Clinical Inertia
- The Doctor and Evidence-Based Medicine
- To Do or Not to Do: A Critique of Medical Reason
- Fighting Against True Clinical Inertia
- Conclusion: Time for Medical Reason
- References.
- Other Format:
- Printed edition:
- ISBN:
- 9783319098821
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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