Wiley | Decision-Making In Veterinary Practice (2024 EN)

Author: Barry Kipperman
Full Title: Decision-Making In Veterinary Practice
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell; 1st edition (January 24, 2024)
Year: 2024
ISBN-13: 9781119986362 (978-1-119-98636-2), 9781119986348 (978-1-119-98634-8)
ISBN-10: 1119986362, 1119986346
Pages: 272
Language: English
Genre: Veterinary Medicine
File type: EPUB (True), PDF (True, but nonnative Cover)
Quality: 9/10
Price: 51.30 €


The first-ever guide to rational decision-making in veterinary practice.

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.

This book 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.


Features:
✓ Discussions of key issues based on extensive clinical experience and evidence
✓ Detailed discussion of important decision determinants like time of day, patient weight, criteria for stopping treatment, and more
✓ Essential insights on clinical decision-making and clinical reasoning

Readership:
This book is ideal for all veterinary practitioners, veterinary students, and clinical skills instructors.

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