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Decision-Making in Veterinary Practice
Wiley-Blackwell
Author | : | Barry Kipperman |
価格:9,570円 (本体 8,700円+税) 送料サービス
・Release: 2024
・ISBN: 9781119986348
・272 Pages
・Trim Size: 177.8 X 20.3 X 254 ・Paperback
Description
Decision-Making in Veterinary Practice
The first-ever guide to rational decision-making in veterinary practice
The practice of veterinary medicine entails crucial decisions about patient care on a daily basis. Whether to admit patients displaying symptoms, whether to pursue diagnoses or prioritize therapeutic trials, whether to advise overnight stays after routine surgery, whether to refer patients; the answers to questions like these can significantly influence patient outcomes and standards of care. However, veterinary clinicians are seldom trained to analyze their patterns of decision-making, relying instead on the existing culture of a practice to dictate their behaviors. This can lead to irrational decisions, institutional inertia, reluctance to comply with evidence-based medicine, and failure to optimize patient outcomes.
Decision-Making in Veterinary Practice provides the first-ever dedicated guide to rational principles for decision-making in veterinary practice. Rooted in the study of normative ethics, it seeks to pose important questions and develop processes by which they can be answered. The book promises to transform the clinical performance of clinicians and practices that utilize it.
Decision-Making in Veterinary Practice readers will also find:
- Discussions of key issues based on extensive clinical experience and evidence
- Detailed discussion of important decision determinants like time of day, patient weight, criteria for stopping treatment, and more
- Essential insights on clinical decision-making and clinical reasoning
Decision-Making in Veterinary Practice is ideal for all veterinary practitioners, veterinary students, and clinical skills instructors.
Table Of Contents
- Contributors xiii
- Acknowledgments xv
- Introduction: Why a Book on Decision-Making in Veterinary Practice? xvii
- Section 1 Fundamental Concepts in Making Clinical Decisions 1
- 1 How to Define Your Success as a Clinician 3
Barry Kipperman - 2 How to Obtain a Patient History 17
Barry Kipperman - 3 Informed Consent 25
Barry Kipperman - 4 Risks, Benefits, and Ageism 37
Barry Kipperman - 5 Client Education Beyond Informed Consent: The Most Important Thing an Owner Needs to Know 47
Barry Kipperman - 6 Euthanasia 53
Barry Kipperman and Kathleen Cooney - 7 Referrals 67
Barry Kipperman - 8 The Influence of Economics on Decision-Making 77
Barry Kipperman - 9 How to Optimize Patient Outcomes 91
Barry Kipperman - 10 Medical Errors 107
Barry Kipperman and Jim Clark - Section 2 Principles of Diagnosis 121
- 11 The Influence of Patient Weight on Decision-Making 123
Barry Kipperman - 12 The Influence of Age and Aging on Decision-Making 129
Barry Kipperman - 13 The Day of the Week Matters 135
Barry Kipperman - 14 The Time of Day Matters 141
Barry Kipperman - 15 Serial Monitoring of Laboratory Results 147
Barry Kipperman - 16 Overdiagnosis and Useful Diagnosis 155
Barry Kipperman - 17 The Minimum Database 167
Barry Kipperman - 18 In What Order Should Tests Be Performed? 173
Barry Kipperman - 19 Diagnostic Errors 179
Barry Kipperman - 20 Providing a Prognosis 189
Barry Kipperman - Section 3 Principles of Treatment 199
- 21 Inpatient or Outpatient? 201
Barry Kipperman - 22 The Therapeutic Trial 207
Barry Kipperman - 23 Interpreting Therapeutic Outcomes 217
Barry Kipperman - 24 Setting Goals and Therapeutic Endpoints 227
Barry Kipperman - 25 Pain Management 235
Barry Kipperman - Index 245