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Improving Medical Outcomes
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The Psychology of Doctor-Patient Visits
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Artikel-Nr:
9781442203037
Veröffentl:
2011
Erscheinungsdatum:
16.10.2011
Seiten:
256
Autor:
Jessica Leavitt
Gewicht:
522 g
Format:
229x158x25 mm
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
Jessica Leavitt is an attorney who has worked in city government, community college, and non-profit organizations. She is active on state and city boards and commissions, including the California Board of Vocational Nursing and Psychiatric Technicians.Fred Leavitt is professor of psychology at California State University, East Bay. He is the author of The Real Drug Abusers (Rowman & Littlefield, 2003), Evaluating Scientific Research (2003), and several other books and journal articles. He lectures at hospitals and other venues and offers continuing education seminars for medical professionals.
The ability of doctors to properly diagnose and treat patients is often colored by non-specific factors that can affect outcomes in profound ways. Communication between doctors and patients is key, but often what is left unsaid is just as important, and messages from outside sources such as medical journals, drug companies, and other patients can affect how a doctor treats any one patient at any one time. This book outlines the non-specific factors that come into play when doctors and patients interact, how both doctors and patients can overcome these messages to focus in on the health of the person sitting on the table, and how psychological factors in both the doctor and the patient can affect medical outcomes. Anyone hoping to improve the medical care they give or the medical care they get will find in these pages strategies for improving those results.
Introduction 1. Doctor-Patient Communication 2. Interpreting Medical Information 3. Decisions Overview 4. Biases 5. Medical Diagnosis: The Problems 6. Reducing Diagnostic Errors 7. Prescription for Prescribing 8. Expectation Effects 9. Complementary and Alternative Medicine 10. Patient Outlook and Social Connectedness 11. Healing Environments Appendix 1: Psychiatric Diagnosis Appendix 2: Darwinian Medicine Appendix 3: Wellness Strategies