Diagnoses Without Names (eBook)

Challenges for Medical Care, Research, and Policy

Michael D. Lockshin, Mary K. Crow, Medha Barbhaiya (Herausgeber)

eBook Download: PDF

2022 | 1. Auflage
XX, 227 Seiten
Springer-Verlag
978-3-031-04935-4 (ISBN)

Infos

Doctors, patients, investigators, administrators, and policymakers who assign diagnoses assume three elements: the name describes an entity with conceptual or evidentiary boundaries, the person setting the name has a high degree of certainty, and the name has a consensus definition. This book challenges this practice and offers an alternative to assigning diagnoses: quantitating diagnostic uncertainty in personal and public medical plans.

This book offers the stakeholders' views participating in a workshop, sponsored by the Barbara Volcker Center/Hospital for Special Surgery, taking place in April 2020, about uncertain diagnoses. Chapters examine the circumstances in which diagnosis names are 'unassignable', either because patients do not fit within diagnostic 'boxes' or because health abnormalities evolve and change over time. In addition, the book deconstructs the processes of diagnosis and explores how different stakeholders used diagnosis names for various purposes. In examining pertinent questions, the book offers a roadmap to achieving consensus definitions or including measures of uncertainty in personal care, research, and policy.

Diagnoses Without Names: Challenges for Medical Care, Research, and Policy is an essential resource for physicians and related professionals, residents, fellows, and graduate students in internal medicine, rheumatology, and clinical immunology as well as investigators, administrators, policymakers.

Michael D. Lockshin, MD, MACR

Director, Barbara Volcker Center

Hospital for Special Surgery

Professor of Medicine and Obstetrics Gynecology

Weill Cornell Medicine

New York, NY

Mary K. Crow, MD

Physician-in-Chief

Chair, Department of Medicine

Benjamin M. Rosen Chair in Immunology and Inflammation Research

Hospital for Special Surgery

Chief, Division of Rheumatology

Joseph P. Routh Professor of Rheumatic Diseases in Medicine

Weill Cornell Medicine

New York, NY

Medha Barbhaiya, MD, MPH

Assistant Attending Physician

Barbara Volcker Center for Women and Rheumatic Disease

Hospital for Special Surgery

Assistant Professor of Medicine

Weill Cornell Medicine

New York, NY 

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 13.6.2022
• Zusatzinfo: XX, 227 p. 11 illus., 10 illus. in color.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Innere Medizin ► Rheumatologie
• Schlagworte: Clinical trials and diagnostic uncertainty • Diagnoses without names • Diagnostic certainty • Diagnostic thought process • Diagnostic uncertainty in rheumatology • Fiscal effects of uncertain diagnoses • Frequency of diagnostic uncertainty • Health policy and diagnostic uncertainty • Medical decision making and diagnostic uncertainty
• ISBN-10: 3-031-04935-7 / 3031049357
• ISBN-13: 978-3-031-04935-4 / 9783031049354