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Editor's Note: Cognitive Screening for Physicians 编者按:医生的认知筛查
Pub Date : 2021-07-01 DOI: 10.30770/2572-1852-107.2.32
H. M. Koenig
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A Pilot Study of a Screening Process for Evaluating the Physical, Mental and Cognitive Health of Senior Physicians 评估老年医师身体、心理和认知健康筛查过程的初步研究
Pub Date : 2021-07-01 DOI: 10.30770/2572-1852-107.2.33
D. Bazzo, P. Smith, E. Wenghofer
Physicians are not immune to changes that accompany aging, including decreases in physical and cognitive health and abilities. Many are calling for, or turning to, screening senior physicians for decrements in their ability to provide safe care. Our purpose was to determine the acceptability and feasibility of a pilot screening process, which evaluates the physical, mental and cognitive health of senior physicians. The screening process was developed by the University of California, San Diego, Physician Assessment and Clinical Education Program. The screen included: mental health screening (PHQ-9, GAD-7, and substance abuse screen), cognitive health screening (MicroCog™ and Montreal Cognitive Assessment [MoCA©]) and physical health screening (medical history review and physical examination). Qualitative semi-structured interviews were conducted post-screening. Thirty senior physicians participated in the pilot process, including post-screening interviews. Eight (27%) participants were judged to “require”/“may require” further evaluation after cognitive assessment. No physicians were found to have physical or mental health issues that would prevent them from practicing competently. Interviews revealed that participants felt the screening process was a positive experience that was effective, acceptable, efficient and relevant to their practice. The results of this pilot study indicate that screening physical, mental and cognitive health is considered both feasible and acceptable to senior physicians. This is important as screening the health and cognition of senior physicians is integral to the national discussion related to regulation and patient safety.
医生也不能免受衰老带来的变化的影响,包括身体和认知健康和能力的下降。许多人呼吁或求助于对资深医生进行筛查,以了解他们提供安全护理的能力下降。我们的目的是确定试点筛查过程的可接受性和可行性,该过程评估高级医生的身体、心理和认知健康。筛查过程由加州大学圣地亚哥分校医师评估和临床教育项目开发。筛查包括:心理健康筛查(PHQ-9、GAD-7和药物滥用筛查)、认知健康筛查(MicroCog™ 和蒙特利尔认知评估[MoCA©])和身体健康筛查(病史回顾和体检)。筛选后进行定性半结构化访谈。30名资深医生参与了试点过程,包括筛查后的访谈。八名(27%)参与者在认知评估后被判断为“需要”/“可能需要”进一步评估。没有发现医生有身体或心理健康问题会妨碍他们胜任执业。访谈显示,参与者认为筛选过程是一种积极的体验,有效、可接受、高效且与他们的实践相关。这项试点研究的结果表明,筛查身体、心理和认知健康被认为是可行的,也是高级医生可以接受的。这一点很重要,因为对资深医生的健康和认知进行筛查是国家监管和患者安全讨论的组成部分。
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Abiding in Our Mission, Despite a Difficult Environment 在艰难的环境中坚守使命
Pub Date : 2021-07-01 DOI: 10.30770/2572-1852-107.2.6
K. Simons
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Physicians, Patients, Sex and Chaperones: Rethinking Medical Regulation 医生、病人、性和监护人:重新思考医疗监管
Pub Date : 2021-07-01 DOI: 10.30770/2572-1852-107.2.17
Ron Paterson
The regulation of sexual misconduct is a challenging area for medical boards. Complaints alleging sexual abuse should always sound alarm bells. They touch on deeply personal matters, the evidence is highly contested, patients are often traumatized, physicians are naturally defensive and boards know that their decisions may be contested and exposed to media scrutiny. Care, sensitivity and fairness in regulatory decision-making is essential.
对医学委员会来说,对不当性行为的监管是一个具有挑战性的领域。指控性侵的投诉应该时刻敲响警钟。它们触及的是非常私人的问题,证据备受争议,患者往往受到精神创伤,医生天生具有防御性,董事会知道他们的决定可能会受到质疑,并暴露在媒体的监督之下。监管决策的谨慎、敏感和公平至关重要。
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Doctors’ Orders: The Making of Status Hierarchies in an Elite Profession 医嘱:精英职业中地位等级的形成
Pub Date : 2021-07-01 DOI: 10.30770/2572-1852-107.2.65
Bryan Carmody, Max Jordan Nguemeni Tiako
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Approximately 70% of the United States physician workforce consists of graduates of American MDgranting medical schools. The remainder is composed of osteopathic physicians and graduates of international medical schools.1 To medical regulators, all of these licensed physicians — regardless of their educational background — are created equal. Yet, to the general public and among their physician peers, status hierarchies often shape the way these doctors are viewed and the practice opportunities that they will receive. How does this social scale get established — and why does it persist?
…………..大约70%的美国医生队伍由美国医学院授予医学博士学位的毕业生组成。其余的由整骨医生和国际医学院毕业生组成。1对于医疗监管机构来说,所有这些有执照的医生——无论他们的教育背景如何——都是平等的。然而,对于普通公众和他们的医生同行来说,地位等级制度往往决定了人们对这些医生的看法以及他们将获得的执业机会。这种社会规模是如何建立起来的,为什么会持续下去?
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What Will It Mean for Me? Perceptions of the ECFMG 2023 Accreditation Requirement from an Online Forum. 这对我意味着什么?从在线论坛对ECFMG 2023认证要求的看法。
Pub Date : 2021-07-01 DOI: 10.30770/2572-1852-107.2.49
Mohammed Ahmed Rashid, Victoria Smith, Sean Tackett, Zakia Arfeen, Faraz Mughal

In 2010, the Educational Commission for Foreign Medical Graduates (ECFMG) announced that as of 2023, physicians applying to train and practice in the United States will be required to graduate from a medical school that has been accredited using criteria such as those developed by the World Federation for Medical Education. This study analyzed posts on the Student Doctor Network (SDN) online forum that refer to this accreditation requirement to investigate how it has been perceived and understood by current and prospective medical students. A keyword search of relevant terms was used to identify posts discussing the accreditation requirement on the SDN online forum, which were subjected to thematic analysis. There were a total of 83 posts from 49 distinct user accounts between May 2012 and January 2020. Seven themes were identified in total; four whose overall purpose was to seek or offer advice and three whose overall purpose was commentary. Themes relating to advice included applications and admissions, future career planning, personal circumstances, and countryspecific issues. Themes relating to commentary included the accreditation requirement policy itself, the potential implications of the requirement, and the educational quality of non-U.S. medical schools. Only half of web links on these posts were to the ECFMG website for official information about the requirement. Although a variety of different perspectives about the ECFMG accreditation requirement were expressed on an online forum for student doctors, the overall number of posts was low, which suggests that the requirement has not been a frequent topic of discussion on this platform. The insights gained from posts suggest personal opinions about the requirement and consequences for individual student application and career choices were the main areas of interest. Signposting to official information channels may help to raise awareness about the requirement and tackle areas of uncertainty and confusion about its implementation.

2010年,外国医学毕业生教育委员会(ECFMG)宣布,从2023年起,申请在美国培训和执业的医生将被要求从使用诸如世界医学教育联合会制定的标准认可的医学院毕业。本研究分析了学生医生网络(SDN)在线论坛上有关这一认证要求的帖子,以调查当前和未来医科学生对这一要求的看法和理解。使用关键词搜索相关术语来识别SDN在线论坛上讨论认证要求的帖子,并对其进行专题分析。从2012年5月到2020年1月,共有来自49个不同用户账户的83条帖子。共确定了七个主题;其中四个的总体目的是寻求或提供建议,三个的总体目的是评论。咨询的主题包括申请和录取、未来职业规划、个人情况和国家具体问题。与评论相关的主题包括认证要求政策本身,要求的潜在影响,以及非美国的教育质量。医学院校。在这些帖子中,只有一半的网站链接指向ECFMG网站,以获取有关该要求的官方信息。尽管关于ECFMG认证要求的各种不同观点在学生医生的在线论坛上表达,但帖子的总数很低,这表明该要求并未成为该平台上经常讨论的话题。从帖子中获得的见解表明,个人对个人申请和职业选择的要求和后果的看法是主要的兴趣领域。在官方信息渠道上发布路标可能有助于提高对这一要求的认识,并解决在实施过程中存在的不确定性和混乱。
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Cognitive Screening for Senior Physicians: Are We Minding the Gap? 资深医师的认知筛查:我们注意到差距了吗?
Pub Date : 2021-07-01 DOI: 10.30770/2572-1852-107.2.41
C. Bundy, B. Williams
Senior physicians are an invaluable community asset that comprise an increasing proportion of the physician workforce. An increase in demand for health care services, with demand exceeding the supply of physicians, has contributed to discussions of the potential benefit of delaying physician retirement to help preserve physician supply. The probable increase in the number of senior physicians has been associated with concerns about their competent practice. Central to this issue are the changes that occur as part of normal aging, how such changes might impact medical practice and what steps need to be taken to ensure the competency of senior physicians. We propose that while age may be an important risk factor for performance issues, it is not the only factor and may not even be the most important. Data on cognitive performance among physicians referred for behavioral and performance concerns reveal that cognitive impairment afflicts physicians across the career span. If the overarching goal is to prevent patient harm through early detection, older physicians may be too narrow a target. Approaches focusing on health screening and promotion across the career span will ultimately be more effective in promoting workforce sustainability and patient safety than age-based solutions.
资深医生是一项宝贵的社区资产,在医生队伍中所占比例不断增加。对医疗保健服务的需求增加,需求超过了医生的供应,这有助于讨论推迟医生退休以帮助保持医生供应的潜在好处。资深医生人数的可能增加与对其执业能力的担忧有关。这个问题的核心是作为正常衰老的一部分发生的变化,这些变化可能会如何影响医疗实践,以及需要采取哪些措施来确保高级医生的能力。我们认为,虽然年龄可能是绩效问题的一个重要风险因素,但它不是唯一的因素,甚至可能不是最重要的因素。因行为和表现问题转诊的医生的认知表现数据显示,认知障碍在整个职业生涯中折磨着医生。如果首要目标是通过早期检测来防止对患者的伤害,那么年长的医生可能是一个过于狭隘的目标。在整个职业生涯中,专注于健康筛查和晋升的方法最终将比基于年龄的解决方案更有效地促进劳动力的可持续性和患者安全。
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The Adoption and Increased Use of Electronic Prescribing of Controlled Substances 管制物质电子处方的采用和增加使用
Pub Date : 2021-07-01 DOI: 10.30770/2572-1852-107.2.8
S. Achar, Nikhil Sinha, W. Norcross
The electronic prescribing of controlled substances (EPCS) is now becoming implemented in most health care practices and pharmacies in the United States. This review aims to detail the steps needed for EPCS adoption and synthesize the most current literature on the benefits and challenges associated with its adoption. Our systematic review of seven published studies from 1990 to 2020 notes the benefits of EPCS in the reduction of errors, fraud, overprescribing, cost and efficiency improvements. There is limited published evidence of challenges, such as the cost of implementation and prescriber burden. With EPCS becoming a nationwide process, further research needs to be conducted to maximize the effectiveness of EPCS and explore additional benefits and challenges. We used a modified version of the GRADE (Grading of Recommendations, Assessment, Development and Evaluations) system for systematic reviews highlighted in the “Cochrane Handbook for Systematic Reviews of Interventions” to assess the quality of the primary studies reviewed.1 Each author was tasked with determining the quality of each primary study reviewed and assigning a quality score of either high, moderate or low quality. Evidence stemming from randomized controlled trials starts as high quality while evidence from observational studies starts as low quality. Quality can be lowered by five factors: risk of bias, imprecision, inconsistency, indirectness, and publication bias and can be raised by a large magnitude of effect and a clear dose-response gradient. We extracted data from the text, tables and graphs of the original publications. Appendix A illustrates the quality of the studies. Databases reviewed included PubMed, Google Scholar, Cochrane and SCOPUS. The search was started in 1990, with the first wave of the opioid epidemic and the first published studies of e-prescribing, and continued to the year of 2020. The key phrases “electronic prescribing of controlled substances,” “e-prescribing of controlled substances,” “fraudulent prescribing of controlled substances,” “EPCS with PDMP,” and “drug interactions with e-prescribing of controlled drugs” were used as an inclusion criterion to search online scholarly databases for articles. Only primary and secondary data from reports, reviews and research studies written in English were included. The Centers for Disease Control (CDC), National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), American Academy of Family Medicine (AAFP), and nationally represented health information networks were used to obtain updated statistics regarding EPCS.
管制物质的电子处方(EPCS)现在正在美国大多数卫生保健实践和药房实施。本综述旨在详细介绍EPCS采用所需的步骤,并综合最新的关于其采用的好处和挑战的文献。我们对1990年至2020年期间发表的七项研究进行了系统回顾,发现EPCS在减少错误、欺诈、过度处方、成本和效率提高方面的好处。关于挑战的已发表证据有限,例如实施成本和开处方者负担。随着EPCS成为一个全国性的过程,需要进一步的研究,以最大限度地提高EPCS的有效性,并探索额外的好处和挑战。我们使用了“Cochrane干预措施系统评价手册”中强调的系统评价的GRADE(推荐、评估、发展和评价分级)系统的修改版本来评估所评价的主要研究的质量每位作者的任务是确定所审查的每个初步研究的质量,并分配高、中或低质量的质量分数。来自随机对照试验的证据开始时质量高,而来自观察性研究的证据开始时质量低。5个因素可降低质量:偏倚风险、不精确风险、不一致性风险、间接性风险和发表偏倚风险,并可通过大的效应强度和明显的剂量-反应梯度提高质量。我们从原始出版物的文本、表格和图表中提取数据。附录A说明了研究的质量。审查的数据库包括PubMed、b谷歌Scholar、Cochrane和SCOPUS。这项研究始于1990年,当时出现了第一波阿片类药物流行和首次发表的电子处方研究,并一直持续到2020年。关键词“管制药物电子处方”、“管制药物电子处方”、“管制药物欺诈处方”、“EPCS与PDMP”和“药物与管制药物电子处方的相互作用”被用作检索在线学术数据库文章的纳入标准。仅包括用英语撰写的报告、评论和研究的主要和次要数据。疾病控制中心(CDC)、国家药物滥用研究所(NIDA)、缉毒局(DEA)、药物滥用和精神卫生服务管理局(SAMHSA)、美国家庭医学学会(AAFP)和全国代表性的卫生信息网络被用来获取有关EPCS的最新统计数据。
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Saskatchewan Physicians’ Opinions of Their Personalized Prescribing Profiles Related to Opioids, Benzodiazepines, Stimulants, and Gabapentin 萨斯喀彻温省医生对阿片类药物、苯二氮卓类药物、兴奋剂和加巴喷丁的个性化处方的看法
Pub Date : 2021-04-01 DOI: 10.30770/2572-1852-107.1.7
Derek J Jorgenson, D. Alazawi, J. Bareham, Nicole Bootsman
Overdoses of prescription medications continue to be a significant concern for health systems around the world. Medical regulators in several jurisdictions have started generating personalized prescribing profiles for individual physicians as an audit and feedback tool to reduce the sub-optimal prescribing of high-risk drugs such as opioids, benzodiazepines and stimulants. However, little is known about how to most effectively communicate the data in these prescriber profiles to the intended recipients. The aim of this study was to collect the opinions of physicians in Saskatchewan, Canada, regarding their personalized prescriber profiles. One-on-one semi-structured interviews were completed in January 2019 with 17 physicians who were given access to personalized profiles containing their prescribing information on opioids, benzodiazepines, stimulants and gabapentin. Interviews were recorded and data was analyzed using thematic analysis. Respondents thought the profiles were a useful tool that had significant potential to improve their prescribing practices. However, many physicians also thought the profiles were confusing and difficult to interpret. Several recommendations were made to improve the prescriber profiles, which may be applicable to other jurisdictions currently using, or planning to develop, similar quality improvement tools. These recommendations include: limiting the use of abbreviations and acronyms; being explicit regarding the intent of the profiles; ensuring comparator data is relevant to the individual recipient; using a combination of numbers and visuals to display data; and providing detailed context regarding what the data means.
处方药物过量仍然是世界各地卫生系统关注的一个重大问题。一些司法管辖区的医疗监管机构已开始为个别医生生成个性化处方档案,作为审计和反馈工具,以减少阿片类药物、苯二氮卓类药物和兴奋剂等高风险药物的次优处方。然而,对于如何最有效地将这些处方资料中的数据传达给预期的接收者,人们知之甚少。本研究的目的是收集加拿大萨斯喀彻温省医生关于其个性化处方资料的意见。2019年1月,17名医生完成了一对一的半结构化访谈,他们获得了包含阿片类药物、苯二氮平类药物、兴奋剂和加巴喷丁处方信息的个性化档案。访谈记录和数据分析使用专题分析。受访者认为档案是一个有用的工具,有很大的潜力来改善他们的处方做法。然而,许多医生也认为这些档案令人困惑,难以解释。提出了几项建议,以改进处方者概况,这可能适用于目前正在使用或计划开发类似质量改进工具的其他司法管辖区。这些建议包括:限制使用缩略语和首字母缩略词;明确说明概要文件的意图;确保比较数据与个别接收方相关;使用数字和视觉的组合来显示数据;并提供有关数据含义的详细背景。
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Strategies to Enhance Boards of Medicine Responses to Medical Error 加强医学委员会应对医疗错误的策略
Pub Date : 2021-04-01 DOI: 10.30770/2572-1852-107.1.17
Lisa Qiu, Jennifer M. Zech, K. Brigham, T. Gallagher
Current models governing how boards of medicine regulate the practice of medicine rely heavily on concepts from the past. Changes in our understanding of how medical errors occur, as well as in the organization and delivery of health care, have created challenges for boards when addressing medical errors. We conducted a qualitative study to explore the principles that boards use to respond to medical errors and to identify opportunities for improvement. Twenty key informant interviews were conducted with board members and staff, followed by two focus group discussions with 16 participants who actively participate in the process of medical regulation. Our results show that the major principles guiding boards of medicine in regulation around medical errors include fairness, consistency, efficiency and transparency. Implementation of these principles proved difficult, partly because of boards’ lack of authority over health care institutions. We recommend the development of a broader array of tools for boards to use in response to medical errors. Increased efforts are also needed to strengthen communication and collaboration among boards, physicians and health care organizations. Additionally, we suggest that boards implement and report performance metrics to promote public engagement and enhance trust in them.
目前管理医学委员会如何规范医学实践的模式在很大程度上依赖于过去的概念。我们对医疗错误发生方式的理解以及医疗保健的组织和提供的变化,给董事会在处理医疗错误时带来了挑战。我们进行了一项定性研究,以探索董事会用于应对医疗错误和确定改进机会的原则。对董事会成员和工作人员进行了20次关键线人访谈,随后与积极参与医疗监管过程的16名参与者进行了两次焦点小组讨论。我们的研究结果表明,指导医学委员会对医疗差错进行监管的主要原则包括公平、一致、效率和透明度。事实证明,这些原则的实施很困难,部分原因是董事会对医疗保健机构缺乏权威。我们建议开发一系列更广泛的工具,供董事会在应对医疗错误时使用。还需要加大力度,加强董事会、医生和卫生保健组织之间的沟通与合作。此外,我们建议董事会实施并报告绩效指标,以促进公众参与并增强对其的信任。
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