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Login Register Subscribe Video Log out My Account Subscribe Video Log out My Account Video Home News Sport Business ALL SECTIONS News UK World Politics Science Entertainment the doctors trial experiments Pictures Investigations Brexit More Telegraph News Simple blood test could stop doctors the doctors trial holocaust using 'trial and error' to prescribe antidepressants, scientists claim The blood test has taken five years to develop trial and error synonym Credit: Alamy Lydia Willgress 7 June 2016 • 2:21am A simple blood test could stop doctors using “trial and error” to prescribe antidepressants, scientists have claimed. Researchers at King’s College London trial and error examples developed the test so experts can accurately predict whether people suffering from depression will respond to specific medication. Around half of patients currently do not respond to common antidepressants, they said as they admitted it has been “almost impossible” until now for doctors to determine the best treatment plan. Their findings will be published on Tuesday in the International Journal of
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Neuropsychopharmacology. Dr Annamaria Cattaneo, a co-author from the university’s Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience (IoPPN), said the research moved doctors one step closer to providing patients with “personalised” treatment. “It is really crucial now to carry out a clinical study comparing the current clinical practice in antidepressant prescription, based on trial-and-error, with our novel approach of ‘personalised psychiatry’, where the antidepressant treatment plan is guided by the blood test,” she said. Nine-year-old describes what living with depression is like Play! 00:32 Dr Carmine Pariante, lead author of the study, told The Telegraph he hoped the injection could be rolled out across the NHS, subject to few more years of trials. It brings a completely new understanding of depression. It confirms that the notion of depression is not just in the mind, it effects the brain and body at the same timeDr Carmine Pariante "In terms of cost we are talking about a few pounds per test. It is a very straghtforward technique that would make use of existing facilities," he said. "It brings a completely new understanding of depression. I
medicine.” Take fever as an example. For 150 years, doctors have routinely prescribed antipyretics like ibuprofen to help reduce fever. But in 2005, researchers at the University of Miami, Florida, ran a study of 82 intensive care
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patients. The patients were randomly assigned to receive antipyretics either if their temperature rose beyond trial and error psychology 101.3°F (“standard treatment”) or only if their temperature reached 104°F. As the trial progressed, seven people getting the standard treatment died, while trial and error math there was only one death in the group of patients allowed to have a higher fever. At this point, the trial was stopped because the team felt it would be unethical to allow any more patients to http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/06/07/simple-blood-test-could-stop-doctors-using-trial-and-error-to-pr/ get the standard treatment. So when something as basic as fever reduction is a hallmark of the “practice of medicine” and hasn’t been challenged for 100+ years, we have to ask: What else might be practiced due to tradition rather than science? Today’s diagnoses are partially informed by patients’ medical histories and partially by symptoms (but patients are bad at communicating what’s really going on). They are mostly informed by advertising and the doctor’s http://fortune.com/2012/12/04/technology-will-replace-80-of-what-doctors-do/ half-remembered and potentially obsolete lessons from medical school (which are laden with cognitive biases, recency biases, and other human errors). Many times, if you ask three doctors to look at the same problem, you’ll get three different diagnoses and three different treatment plans. The net effect is patient outcomes that are inferior to and more expensive than what they should be. A Johns Hopkins study found that as many as 40,500 patients die in an ICU in the U.S. each year due to misdiagnosis, rivaling the number of deaths from breast cancer. Yet another study found that ‘system-related factors’, e.g. poor processes, teamwork, and communication, were involved in 65% of studied diagnostic error cases. ‘Cognitive factors’ were involved in 75%, with ‘premature closure’ (sticking with the initial diagnosis and ignoring reasonable alternatives) as the most common cause. These types of diagnostic errors also add to rising healthcare expenditures, costing $300,000 per malpractice claim. Healthcare should become more about data-driven deduction and less about trial-and-error. That’s hard to pull off without technology, because of the increasing amount of data and research available. Next-generation medicine will utilize more complex models of physiology, and more sensor data than a human MD could comprehend, to suggest personalized diagnosis. Thousands of baseline and multi-omic data points, more integrative history, and demeanor will inform each diagnosis. E
Premises Liability Contact Us A Doctor’s “Mistake” or “Error in Judgment” Can Still Be Malpractice In most medical malpractice cases, the default defense is: “medicine is so complex and mysterious that there is no standard by which the https://www.kennerlyloutey.com/doctors-mistake-error-judgment-can-still-malpractice/ doctor can be judged, and thus they cannot be liable.” The lawyers for https://www.ted.com/talks/tim_harford?language=en the doctor or hospital (and their experts) rarely say it outright — because they are worried that jurors and judges will see right through it as a claim that doctors can never be held accountable for anything — but this defense is embedded deeply in most of the arguments they make for the jury. trial and It doesn’t matter if the doctor made an obvious mistake, or if the doctor violated multiple standard guidelines. Consider this closing argument made by a doctor’s lawyer in the case of Passarello v. Grumbine: Now every physician must use clinical judgment. You don’t practice medicine by textbook. There’s no guideline that you can go to. You don’t have something on your blackberry well there’s this symptom and this trial and error symptom so we’re gonna do this. They have to make decisions. A physician cannot warrant care and they cannot guarantee outcomes because of the uniqueness of treating human beings. To require otherwise, to require physicians to be perfect, is an impossible burden and we—the law recognizes that we will not do that. When you look at [the doctor’s] judgments, were they careless, were they unskilled? When you come to the key issue, the August 2 phone call, she had to use her judgment, and if her judgment was reasonable, then she was not careless and she was not unskilled. Part of that argument is correct: physicians can’t “guarantee outcomes.” But part of it is terribly misleading: in a medical negligence trial, the question isn’t whether physicians are “perfect,” or “careless,” or “unskilled,” or whether they “use[d] her judgment,” or whether “her judgment was reasonable.” The question is if the physician failed to follow the standard of care demanded of them. As the Pennsylvania Superior Court concluded, “What counsel’s argument skillfully suggests is that regardless of the objective standard of care, [the doctor], in an exercise of continued self-sacrifice, acted with the best of intentions and made judgments for which she could no
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