Listening for What Matters: Avoiding Contextual Errors in Health Care

Listening for What Matters: Avoiding Contextual Errors in Health Care
ISBN-10
0197588107
ISBN-13
9780197588109
Category
Education
Pages
193
Language
English
Published
2023
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Authors
Alan Schwartz, Saul J. Weiner

Description

"Our fascination with the topic of contextualizing care began about twenty years ago when the evidence-based medicine movement had taken hold. We noticed that although medical residents were skilled at identifying the latest studies and guidelines, their care plans often didn't seem appropriate once one considered the life challenges some of their patients were facing. We'd see, for instance, a patient with poorly controlled asthma put on a higher dose of a medication they weren't taking, rather than a cheaper generic, when the context was that they couldn't afford it. We coined the terms "contextual error" to describe these kinds of mistakes and "contextualized care" when patients' care plans are adapted to their life circumstances"--

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