PVB Flashcards
What concept of cognitive psychology is selecting people with the same background and interests as you over others?
Similarity bias / affinity bias
gravitate towards people like us in appearance, beliefs and background
What type of bias means valuing information confirming your own decision or opinion?
Confirmation Bias
3 types of bias
affinity
confirmation
halo
Halo bias
one positive trait about a person making you view them in a particular way
Define bodily autonomy
Each person has the RIGHT of control as to what happens to their body (self-ownership / self-determination)
4 reasons to examine the human body
Understand normal physiology
Understand illness
Advancing medical science
enables diagnosis and effective medical treatments
What examination leaves out
lived experience of illness
meaning of illness to patient
nature of suffering
patients priorities
dualist approach
body is biological machine that houses conciousness
Embodied life
idea that importance of physical body doesn’t disappear after death, so dead should be treated with dignity
challenge of good medicine
objectivity
responding to death
patient-centred
emotional control
compassion
appreciating significance of dead body
SMHI
Standardised hospital mortality
identifies organisations with high expected mortalities
6 domains of healthcare (TEPEES)
Timely
Effective
Person centred
Efficient
Equitable
Safe
Good quality care for people
Safe
effective
positive experience - caring, responsive and patient centred
Good quality care for providers
well-led
sustainable
equitable
what is clinical governance
measuring and improving quality of healthcare
SMART targets to improve quality
S- specific
M- measurable
A- acheiveable
R- relevant
T- time bound
3 categories of research papers
research - generalisable new knowledge
audit - intent to determine if service reaches certain standard
quality improvement - assessment of what factors impact certain services
4 Rs
Roles
Responsibilities
Relationships
Reflection
unconscious bias
not aware of it, but tendency appears in behaviour
Ways to change bias
Understanding, Awareness, Accountability, Open mind
Diversity
state1 quality of being different / varied
Equality
Same resources
Equity
resources to suit each persons needs
Superhumanisation
harboring latent ideas that minorities have
special qualities that make them less deserving of bodily consideration and pain relief
