Yang Chen, Myura Nagendran

Thinking About Thinking (eBook, PDF)

A Prescription for Healthcare Improvement

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This book is about the practice of medicine and the decision-making of the people we entrust with our care. While treatments, technologies and professional roles have evolved over the years, the essential act of decision-making has remained constant.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Juli 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781040030585
• Artikelnr.: 72389219

Autorenporträt

Dr Yang Chen completed medicine as an undergraduate at both Cambridge and Oxford University. He has been a Specialist Registrar in Cardiology since 2017 and was awarded a NIHR Academic Clinical Fellowship at University College London.

Yang has a passion for medical writing with a track record of publication across different subject matter and styles. His previous work has received national recognition (Royal College of Physicians Teale Essay Prize 2016) and he has published academic papers that have contributed to international guidelines.

Yang was a contributor to Clinical Guide to Cardiology (Wiley Publishing, 2015) and was subsequently co-editor of Clinical Guide to Gastroenterology (Wiley Publishing, 2018). His most recent writing has been published by BMJ Leader and the Faculty of Medical Leadership and Management and he is currently completing a PhD in computerised decision support and pragmatic clinical trials at the UCL Institute of Health Informatics.

Dr Myura Nagendran is a Specialist Registrar and Fellow of the Faculty of Intensive Care Medicine. He graduated from Cambridge and Oxford Universities and is due to complete his postgraduate clinical training in London in 2025.

Myura has published over 50 peer-reviewed papers in journals including the BMJ, Lancet and Nature Medicine and his work has been featured by Fortune and BBC World. He is currently completing a PhD at Imperial College London focused on clinical AI and the evaluation of explainability in high fidelity simulation settings. He has also served on international guideline committees for the surgical treatment of AF (2013) and early-stage AI-driven decision support evaluation (2022).

Inhaltsangabe

Prologue Part 1 - Context
Objectives
Chapter 1 Introduction
Chapter 2 Healthcare now
Summary
Part 2 - The Wrong Kind of Training
Objectives
Chapter 3 Old foundations
Chapter 4 Assessment for assessment's sake
Chapter 5 See one
do one
teach one
Summary
Part 3 - How Decisions are Currently Made
Objectives
Chapter 6 Anatomy of a decision
Chapter 7 Common biases
Chapter 8 Process versus outcome
Chapter 9 A prescription for better decisions
Chapter 10 The Nightingale experience
Summary
Part Four - How Decisions will be Made in the Future
Objectives
Chapter 11 How decisions will be made in the future
Chapter 12 Two black boxes
Chapter 13 Care in the future
Summary
Epilogue