International Health Care Systems: Models, Components, and Goals

Mitonga, Kabwebwe Honoré; Shilunga, Anna Panduleni Kauko

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-05325-3_60-1

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“…This decision was supported by research indicating that different hospital administration models in the US health system impact how income is generated from treatment,17–19 how insurers may influence treatment decisions,20 how the unregulated cost of pharmaceuticals may impact decision making for both clinician and patient,21 and the role in industry lobbying on individual, local and national decision making 22 23. Although other countries do involve insurance companies and are impacted by some market forces in the delivery of healthcare, countries outside the USA heavily regulate wealth disparity,24 unlike in the USA healthcare system where the share of healthcare resources devoted to care of the wealthy has risen over time and the life expectancy of the wealthiest Americans now exceeds that of the poorest by 10–15 years 25…”

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Physician emotional experience of communication and decision making with end-of-life patients: qualitative studies systematic review

Latham

Butchard

Mason

2022

BMJ Support Palliat Care

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ObjectiveTo explore the emotional experience of physicians in acute settings when encountering end-of-life conversations and decision making.MethodThematic synthesis of qualitative studies. Medline, PsychInfo, PubMed, BNI and CIAHL were searched from 1985 to 2021 for studies published in English. Data extraction was informed by a framework created for assessing methodological quality by Polanin, Pigott, Espelage and Grotpeter (2019) and adapted by Draper et al. (2019).ResultsOf 8429 papers identified, 17 were selected for review. Two themes containing 10 subthemes described the emotional and psychological factors impacting the experience of end-of-life care, namely: a tension between desire and ability to communicate end-of-life news, and a conflict of hiding versus revealing self across several practical and emotional contexts.ConclusionMedical training is only a small factor in how well a person copes with end-of-life care and may sometimes feed negative appraisals . Lack of support from senior colleagues, fear of criticism and a sense of perceived failure were linked to lower self-efficacy in end-of-life care. Beyond learning practical skills, physicians benefit from understanding the psychological factors impacting their experience and in building self-efficacy, and observing senior colleagues effectively process strong and difficult emotions.Practical implicationsPromoting personal reflection and sharing of the experiences encountered in end-of-life care, especially modelled from senior colleagues, may contribute to improvements in competence and reduce the impact of heroism, feelings of failure and avoidance in practice.

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