Understanding health care workers’ anxieties in a diversifying world

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dc.contributor.authorDaniels, Karen
dc.contributor.authorSwartz, Leslie
dc.date.accessioned2012-08-06T10:16:13Z
dc.date.available2012-08-06T10:16:13Z
dc.date.issued2007-11
dc.descriptionThe original publication is available at http://www.plosmedicine.orgen_ZA
dc.description.abstractWe live in an age of evidencebased medicine, and with good reason. It is important to be able to evaluate the likely impact of various interventions, and it is no longer acceptable to practice health care on the basis of received wisdom and anecdotal evidence, which has convincingly been shown to be subject to serious bias. One of the dangers of the evidence revolution in health care, however, is that the emphasis on an actuarial approach (see Glossary) to evaluating health interventions may obscure the influence of more complex interactions between patients and health professionals. The impact of these interactions upon health care outcomes may be idiosyncratic and rather difficult to measure. Two important ways in which evidence-based medicine has attempted to account for these interactions are the increasing emphasis on what is variously called effectiveness (as opposed to efficacy) research, and the project to turn evidence into clinical practice guidelines so that patients receive consistent care.en_ZA
dc.description.versionPublishers' Versionen_ZA
dc.format.extent2 p.
dc.identifier.citationDaniels, K & Swartz, L. 2007. Understanding health care workers’ anxieties in a diversifying world. PLoS Med, 4(11), e319, doi:10.1371/journal. pmed.0040319.en_ZA
dc.identifier.issn1549-1676 (online)
dc.identifier.issn1549-1277 (print)
dc.identifier.otherdoi:10.1371/journal. pmed.0040319
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/22015
dc.language.isoen_ZAen_ZA
dc.publisherPublic Library of Science (PLOS)en_ZA
dc.rights.holderAuthors retain the copyrighten_ZA
dc.subjectHealth care workers -- Psychological aspectsen_ZA
dc.subjectHealth care workers -- Researchen_ZA
dc.subjectHealth care -- Ethnic diversityen_ZA
dc.subjectHealth professionals -- Psychological aspectsen_ZA
dc.titleUnderstanding health care workers’ anxieties in a diversifying worlden_ZA
dc.typeArticleen_ZA
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