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What is consent?

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Voluntary agreement given by a competent patient that has been fully informed

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What are the 3 requirements for valid consent?

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Informed
Voluntary
Has capacity

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What are the 4 forms of consent?

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Oral
Written
Implied
Expressed

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What information does the patient need as part of the consent process?

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Potential benefits
Potential risks
Alternative treatment options

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When is consent required?

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Before examination
Before treatment or care
Before disclosure of confidential information
For screening
For teaching
For research
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Why is consent needed?

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Helps trust between patient and doctor
Legal requirement
Respects autonomy
Professional duty

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What is the Bolam Principle?

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Practitioners are not negligent if they act in accordance with the practice accepted by a responsible body of medical opinion

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What is negligence?

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The concept of failure to exercise care

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What is capacity?

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Determined by a physician, refers to an assessment of the individuals ability to understand, appreciate and manipulate information to form rational decisions

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What act focuses on who has capacity?

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Mental capacity act 2005

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Who does the mental capacity act apply to?

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People over age 16

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Which act says a 16 year old has full capacity?

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The family law reform act 1969

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What is Gillick competence?

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A child under 16 can consent to medical treatment if deemed to be competent by a medical professional, without need for parental knowledge or consent

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What is a POM?

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Prescription only medicine

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What is a P?

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Pharmacy medicine- can get under pharmacist supervision

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What are OTC drugs?

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For sale over the counter, without any medical advice etc.

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Why are P drugs used?

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Pharmacists can ask customers questions about symptoms etc.
Ensures no red flags about how long the patient can use it for
Duration of symptom may mean its not safe to self-treat

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Who regulates these medicines?

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MHRA- medicines and healthcare regulatory authority

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When can a POM change to a P?

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When there is no danger when used correctly without doctor supervision

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When can it go from a P to OTC?

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When it can safely be used without pharmacy supervision

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Name 4 community pharmacy schemes?

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Minor ailment schemes
Emergency contraception
Smoking cessation
Health education

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Self medication scale say patients fit into 3 main categories, what are they?

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People reluctant to take analgesics
People who don’t think twice about taking analgesics
People who prefer to let pain run its course

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What is quantitive data?

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Discrete- only certain values possible
OR
Continuous- any value is possible

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What is qualitative data?

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Multinominal- categories aren't ordered
OR
Ordered- categories exhibit logical order
OR
Dichotomous- 2 categories that oppose
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What are descriptive statistics?
Data is collected and summarised and described in terms of means, SD's etc.
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What is ecological fallacy?
Inferences about nature of individuals are deduced from inference for the group to which they belong
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What are inferential statistics?
Using statistical tests to make generalisations about a population
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What are nominal data, ordinal data and interval data?
Nominal- categorical e.g. sex Ordinal- categories ordered in value e.g. degree of pain Interval- continuous data with equal intervals e.g. age, height, weight
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What are measure of locations with data?
Mean- average of all observations Median- midpoint of the data set Mode- Most frequent observation
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What are measure of dispersion with data?
Standard deviation Interquartile range Range
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What is a hypothesis?
An idea expressed in such a way that it can be tested and refuted
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What is a null hypothesis?
The hypothesis that there is no difference between 2 groups
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What is a P value?
The probability that the difference between groups would be as big or bigger than that observed if the null hypothesis is true
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At what point is statistical significance generally accepted?
P=0.05- statistically significant, strong evidence against null hypothesis so can reject hypothesis
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What is standard error?
Describes how good a given estimate is Tells you how good your sample statistic is Looks at how accurate your estimation of the mean is
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What is a confidence interval?
Range of values that we think contain the mean, confidence limits are the actual upper and lower boundaries of this
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Difference between race and ethnicity?
Race is genetic | Ethnicity is socially determined
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Why is ethnicity important in medicine?
Disease prevalence varies with ethnicity Best treatment may vary by ethnicity Affects behaviour towards others Can look at the patient according to their own values
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What is ethnocentricity?
Judging 1 culture based on the values of another
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What anaemia's are genetic?
Sickle cell | Thalassaemia
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What are the primary, secondary and tertiary management principles associated with sickle cell?
Primary- carrier screening Secondary- Postnatal screening Tertiary- treatment, preventative, therapeutics
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How do we decide who to screen?
Cost- would cost a lot to screen everyone Could be seen as racist to screen certain people and not other by race How is ethnicity determined to know who to screen?
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What is risk?
Probability that an event will occur during a specified time, only works if period is fixed
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What is relative and absolute risk?
Absolute- risk of developing the disease over a time period Relative- the ratio of the probability of developing an outcome in those exposed compared to those not exposed (risk ratio)
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How to calculate risk ratio?
Risk in exposed divided by risk in non exposed Risk ratio of 1 means no difference in risk between the 2 groups Risk ratio of less than 1 means the risk is lower in experimental group than control group
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What is absolute risk reduction?
Difference in risk between study and control populations
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What is confidentiality?
Pledge of agreement to not divulge or disclose information about patients to others
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Why is it important to maintain confidentiality?
``` Improves trust between patient and doctor Respects autonomy Prevents patient harm Virtuous Human rights act GMC requirement ```
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When can confidentiality be breached?
Statute (law) Consent by patient Public best interest
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Name some laws that oblige doctors to disclose information?
Public health act 1984 Road traffic act 1988 Prevention of terrorism act 1989
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What is a cross-sectional survey?
Descriptive study, observational. | Analyses data from a population at 1 point in time
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What is an ecological study?
Disease rates and exposures are measured in a series of populations and examined
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What is a cohort study?
Prospective- have a group of people with or without risk factors and see if they develop a particular disease
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What is a case control study?
Retrospective- have a group of people with a disease and look back to see if they had a certain risk factor e.g. if they smoked
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What is a case report?
Detailed report of symptoms, signs, diagnosis, treatment and follow up of individual patient
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What is a qualitative study?
Seeks to understand people's perspectives and motivations
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What is a randomised control trial?
Experiment where participants are randomly allocated into groups Compare the experimental groups and control groups for outcomes
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Why randomise trials?
Eliminates systematic bias | Basis for statistical tests
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What types of bias are there in RCTs?
Selection bias Ascertainment bias Performance bias
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What is temporal change?
People get better or worse irrespective of medical intervention Hard to distinguish whether medical action or temporal change is responsible
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What is regression towards the mean?
If a variable is extreme on its first measurement, it will tend to be closer to average on its second
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What is statistical power?
The probability of rejecting a null hypothesis when it is false
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What is a type 1 error?
False positive- rejecting null hypothesis when should have accepted it
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What is a type 2 error?
False negative- accepting the null hypothesis when should have rejected it

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