Recommending no further treatment: Gatekeeping work of generalists at a Japanese university hospital
Recommending no further treatment: Gatekeeping work of generalists at a Japanese university hospital
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建议不再接受进一步治疗:日本大学医院全科医生的把关工作
DOI:
10.1016/j.socscimed.2021.113891
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发表时间:
2021
影响因子:
5.4
通讯作者:
Michie Kawashima and Tetsuya Abe
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作者:
Shuya Kushida;Michie Kawashima and Tetsuya Abe
In medical decision-making, doctors have to take into consideration whether patients' expectations can be satisfied while appropriately allocating medical resources. This study explores how recommendations for no further treatment, or gate-closing recommendations, are resisted by patients and how doctors react to resistance in outpatient consultations at a university hospital in Japan. We show how the type of patient resistance shapes doctors' reactions.Problem-focused resistanceproblematizes the doctor's understanding of the patient's problem or the treatment itself without focusing on the gate-closing aspect of a recommendation, and is met with doctors' persuasion through diagnosis-based accounts.Provider-focused resistancefocuses on the gate-closing aspect of a recommendation, and leads doctors to manage their dual roles as patient advocate and resource steward. Two subtypes of provider-focused resistance further shape this work differently. Unwillingness-focused resistance is met with persuasion mainly through institution-based accounts. Unavailability-focused resistance is met with a concession. Doctors systematically respond to patients' resistance in order to reach an agreement during decision-making. They take measures to reconcile their dual roles, and orient themselves toward the implicit rationale of gatekeeping, which has a moral nature.