Decision Making in Veterinary Practice Barry Kipperman 1st edition

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• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1119986346
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1119986348
• Author: Barry Kipperman

The practice of veterinary medicine entails crucial decisions about patient care on a daily basis. Whether to admit patients displaying symptoms, whether to pursue diagnoses or prioritize therapeutic trials, whether to advise overnight stays after routine surgery, whether to refer patients; the answers to questions like these can significantly influence patient outcomes and standards of care. However, veterinary clinicians are seldom trained to analyze their patterns of decision-making, relying instead on the existing culture of a practice to dictate their behaviors. This can lead to irrational decisions, institutional inertia, reluctance to comply with evidence-based medicine, and failure to optimize patient outcomes.

Decision-Making in Veterinary Practice provides the first-ever dedicated guide to rational principles for decision-making in veterinary practice. Rooted in the study of normative ethics, it seeks to pose important questions and develop processes by which they can be answered. The book promises to transform the clinical performance of clinicians and practices that utilize it.

Table contents:

Section 1 Fundamental Concepts in Making Clinical Decisions 1

1 How to Define Your Success as a Clinician 3

2 How to Obtain a Patient History 17

3 Informed Consent 25

4 Risks, Benefits, and Ageism 37

5 Client Education Beyond Informed Consent: The Most Important Thing an Owner Needs to Know 47

6 Euthanasia 53

7 Referrals 67

8 The Influence of Economics on Decision-Making 77

9 How to Optimize Patient Outcomes 91

10 Medical Errors 107

Section 2 Principles of Diagnosis 121

11 The Influence of Patient Weight on Decision-Making 123

12 The Influence of Age and Aging on Decision-Making 129

13 The Day of the Week Matters 135

14 The Time of Day Matters 141

15 Serial Monitoring of Laboratory Results 147

16 Overdiagnosis and Useful Diagnosis 155

17 The Minimum Database 167

18 In What Order Should Tests Be Performed? 173

19 Diagnostic Errors 179

20 Providing a Prognosis 189

Section 3 Principles of Treatment 199

21 Inpatient or Outpatient? 201

22 The Therapeutic Trial 207

23 Interpreting Therapeutic Outcomes 217
24 Setting Goals and Therapeutic Endpoints 227

25 Pain Management 235

Index 245

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