Integrating conflicting professional roles: physician participation in randomized clinical trials.
Integrating conflicting professional roles: physician participation in randomized clinical trials.
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整合相互冲突的专业角色:医生参与随机临床试验。
DOI:
10.1016/0277-9536(92)90169-q
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发表时间:
1992
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Taylor,KM
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The traditional identification of physicians aseitherclinicianorresearcher is challenged by the emergence of randomized clinical trials (RCTs) where research and clinical care are performed simultaneously. A mail survey using a self-administered questionnaire, the Physician Orientation Profile, was conducted of 101 physicians from the Collaborative Ocular Melanoma Study (COMS), a set of trials which compares surgical removal of the eye with radiation in the treatment of medium sized eye cancers. A 95% response rate was obtained; follow-up telephone interviews were conducted with 87% of respondents. Key findings suggest that RCTs challenge traditional definitions of physician's ‘core task,’ because they participate in a social process that requires them to integrate the formerly disparate and sometimes competing roles of researcher and clinician. Three implications of this integration are discussed: amending the expert reward system, altering customary clinical practice and redefining reference groups for professional interaction.