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Assessing Diagnostic PerformanceDiagnosis is an action and a goal in medicine. This article is the introduction to a series of review articles on varying facets of diagnosis. Clinical diagnosis is an exercise in classification; that is, placing the patient's condition in the correct diagnostic category. However, consideration must also be given to the performance objective, whether it is technical performance of a test, acquiring diagnostic information with respect to clinical management for an individual or a population's health outcomes, or cost-effectiveness and equity of care.
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Análise de Custo-Efetividade , Medicina , Humanos , Análise Custo-Benefício , Exercício FísicoRESUMO
This inaugural Lincoln Chen Lecture comments on five themes raised in the International Conference on the Future of Health Professional Education (University of Miami, November 2022), identifies challenges for the future of health professional education, and highlights the contributions and legacy of Lincoln Chen.
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Pessoal de Saúde , Humanos , Pessoal de Saúde/educação , Saúde GlobalRESUMO
Background: Although transparency is crucial for building public trust, public health communication during the COVID-19 pandemic was often nontransparent. Methods: In a cross-sectional online study with COVID-19 vaccine-hesitant German residents (N = 763), we explored the impact of COVID-19 public health communication on the attitudes of vaccine-hesitant individuals toward vaccines as well as their perceptions of incomprehensible and incomplete information. We also investigated whether specific formats of public health messaging were perceived as more trustworthy. Results: Of the 763 participants, 90 (11.8%) said they had become more open-minded toward vaccines in general, 408 (53.5%) reported no change, and 265 (34.7%) said they had become more skeptical as a result of public health communication on COVID-19 vaccines. These subgroups differed in how incomprehensible they found public health communication and whether they thought information had been missing. Participants' ranking of trustworthy public health messaging did not provide clear-cut results: the fully transparent message, which reported the benefit and harms in terms of absolute risk, and the nontransparent message, which reported only the benefit in terms of relative risk were both considered equally trustworthy (p = 0.848). Discussion: Increased skepticism about vaccines during the COVID-19 pandemic may have partly been fueled by subpar public health communication. Given the importance of public trust for coping with future health crises, public health communicators should ensure that their messaging is clear and transparent.
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COVID-19 , Comunicação em Saúde , Vacinas , Humanos , Vacinas contra COVID-19 , COVID-19/prevenção & controle , Estudos Transversais , Pandemias , PercepçãoRESUMO
The education of health professionals substantially changed before, during, and after the COVID-19 pandemic. A 2010 Lancet Commission examined the 100-year history of health-professional education, beginning with the 1910 Flexner report. Since the publication of the Lancet Commission, several transformative developments have happened, including in competency-based education, interprofessional education, and the large-scale application of information technology to education. Although the COVID-19 pandemic did not initiate these developments, it increased their implementation, and they are likely to have a long-term effect on health-professional education. They converge with other societal changes, such as globalisation of health care and increasing concerns of health disparities across the world, that were exacerbated by the pandemic. In this Health Policy, we list institutional and instructional reforms to assess what has happened to health-professional education since the publication of the Lancet Commission and how the COVID-19 pandemic altered the education process.
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COVID-19 , Humanos , Pandemias/prevenção & controle , Pessoal de Saúde/educação , Atenção à SaúdeAssuntos
Pesquisa Biomédica/organização & administração , COVID-19/prevenção & controle , Controle de Doenças Transmissíveis/organização & administração , Prática de Saúde Pública , Eficácia de Vacinas , COVID-19/diagnóstico , Teste Sorológico para COVID-19 , Vacinas contra COVID-19 , Controle de Doenças Transmissíveis/métodos , Sistemas de Dados , Regulamentação Governamental , Política de Saúde/legislação & jurisprudência , Humanos , Imunização Secundária , Administração em Saúde Pública/legislação & jurisprudência , Administração em Saúde Pública/normas , Estados Unidos , Vacinação/estatística & dados numéricosAssuntos
Sistema de Aprendizagem em Saúde/organização & administração , Pesquisa Biomédica , História do Século XX , História do Século XXI , Humanos , Sistema de Aprendizagem em Saúde/história , Sistema de Aprendizagem em Saúde/métodos , Informática Médica , National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine, U.S., Health and Medicine Division , Estados UnidosRESUMO
COVID-19 has strained hospital capacity, detracted from patient care, and reduced hospital income. This article lays out a tested strategy that surgical and hospital leaders can use to overcome clinical and financial strain, emphasizing the experience at 2 leading North American medical centers. By classifying the time and resource needs of surgical patients and smoothing the flow of surgical admissions over all days of the week, hospitals can dramatically improve hospital efficiency, the quality of care and timely access to care for emergent and urgent surgeries. Through and beyond the time of COVID, smoothing the flow of surgical patients is a key means to restore hospital vitality and improve the care of all patients.
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COVID-19/prevenção & controle , Administração Hospitalar , Controle de Infecções/organização & administração , Procedimentos Cirúrgicos Operatórios , COVID-19/epidemiologia , COVID-19/transmissão , Número de Leitos em Hospital , Hospitalização , HumanosAssuntos
Infecções por Coronavirus , Mortalidade , Pandemias , Pneumonia Viral , Betacoronavirus , COVID-19 , Humanos , SARS-CoV-2Assuntos
Infecções por Coronavirus/epidemiologia , Pandemias/prevenção & controle , Pneumonia Viral/epidemiologia , Administração em Saúde Pública , Prática de Saúde Pública , COVID-19 , Infecções por Coronavirus/diagnóstico , Infecções por Coronavirus/prevenção & controle , Humanos , Pneumonia Viral/diagnóstico , Pneumonia Viral/prevenção & controle , Roupa de Proteção/provisão & distribuição , Pesquisa em Sistemas de Saúde Pública , Kit de Reagentes para Diagnóstico/provisão & distribuição , Estados Unidos/epidemiologiaRESUMO
BACKGROUND: South Africa, as an emerging middle-income country, is becoming increasingly influential in global health diplomacy (GHD). However, little empirical research has been conducted to inform arguments for the integration of domestic health into foreign policy by state and non-state actors. This study seeks to address this knowledge gap. It takes the form of an empirical case study which analyses how South Africa integrates domestic health into its foreign policy, using the lens of access to antiretroviral (ARV) medicines. OBJECTIVE: To explore state and non-state actors' perceptions regarding how domestic health policy is integrated into foreign policy. The ultimate goal of this study was to achieve better insights into the health and foreign policy processes at the national level. METHODS: Employing qualitative approaches, we examined changes in the South African and global AIDS policy environment. Purposive sampling was used to select key informants, a sample of state and non-state actors who participated in in-depth interviews. Secondary data were collected through a systematic literature review of documents retrieved from five electronic databases, including review of key policy documents. Qualitative data were analysed for content. This content was coded, and the codes were collated into tentative categories and sub-categories using Atlas.ti v.7 software. RESULTS: The findings of this work illustrate the interplay among social, political, economic and institutional conditions in determining the success of this integration process. Our study shows that a series of national and external developments, stakeholders, and advocacy efforts and collaboration created these integrative processes. South Africa's domestic HIV/AIDS constituencies, in partnership with the global advocacy movement, catalysed the mobilization of support for universal access to ARV treatment nationally and globally, and the promotion of access to healthcare as a human right. CONCLUSIONS: Transnational networks may influence government's decision making by providing information and moving issues up the agenda.