Patient and physician characteristics influencing medical decisions in asthma
| Autor: | Jerald F. Dirks, Robert A. Kinsman, Nelson F. Jones, Douglas J. Horton, Kenneth H. Fross |
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| Rok vydání: | 1978 |
| Předmět: |
Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine
Adult Personality Tests medicine.medical_specialty Adolescent media_common.quotation_subject Population Decision Making Length of hospitalization Judgment MMPI medicine Personality Humans education Asthma media_common Aged education.field_of_study Physician-Patient Relations business.industry Fear Length of Stay Middle Aged medicine.disease Respiratory Function Tests Distress Family medicine business Clinical psychology |
| Zdroj: | The Journal of asthma research. 15(4) |
| ISSN: | 0021-9134 |
| Popis: | The present study explores the complex interplay of objective indices of illness-severity and personal characteristics of patients and physicians as they influence judged illness-severity and medical decisions concerning length of hospitalization and intensity of prescribed oral corticosteroids in a chronic asthmatic population. The results indicate that, depending on the physician's personal characteristics, he may: a) confuse his patient's psychological physical distress, resulting in medical judgment and decisions being influenced by patient personality; b) accurately distinguish between psychological physical distress but treat a psychological problem as though it were a medical problem; c) judge and treat the patient's illness objectively, regardless of the patient's personality. These findings stress the importance of expanding the present biomedical model of medicine to include a better appreciation of how social, psychological, and behavioral factors influence the medical decisions about treatment and the resulting outcome. |
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