Changing patterns of cervical cancer rates.
Changing patterns of cervical cancer rates.
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宫颈癌发病率的变化模式。
DOI:
10.1136/bmj.287.6391.510
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发表时间:
1983
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影响因子:
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通讯作者:
G. Cook
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作者:
G. Draper;G. Cook
anaesthetists6 and heard how one major department is experimenting with the use of personality questionnaires and a trained psychologist in the selection process for new entrants to the specialty. Some easily avoidable tragedies occur at the hands of trainees, and over the years there has developed a nagging unease that the examination hurdles of the Faculty of Anaesthetists are inappropriate to the natural order of training in the specialty. The changes which will come into effect in 1985 are designed to focus the attention of the first year trainee on safety and craft competence before encouraging him to learn the more detailed aspects of pathophysiology, pharmacology, and the physical sciences necessary for the fully trained specialist.7 The consequent need to reappraise the influence of National Health Service gradings on the timing of examination hurdles was also touched on. A topic that was highlighted for further attention was the effect of the quality of management and administration in anaesthetic departments and the importance of efficient scheduling of both work and training. For example, there is a need to mitigate the tensions created when a slow surgeon or an over running operating list threatens to impinge on some other scheduled commitment, whether professional or social. Interestingly, anaesthetics is the first specialty in which a course on management has been specifically designed solely for its members. Another aspect of the possible influence of departmental organisation on the quality of care is the need to rethink what the emergency anaesthetist could be doing while waiting for the emergency. Given reliable communications, could he not be attending to the quality of postoperative pain relief, generally acknowledged to be a major weakness in modern medical practice ?8 In fact, relatively few totally new ideas emerged that might have a direct impact on safety or on the quality of care. Perhaps this is because in terms of the usual indicators we are now working on a vanishingly small margin. The number of avoidable deaths is a very small proportion ofthe total number of anaesthetics given and may not be reducible by general educational efforts. It is probably still as true today as when first written that: "In the great majority [of deaths] there was a serious departure from generally accepted safe practice."9 Critical incident reporting, recently introduced by the British Airline Pilots Association, may have a more relevant part to play.10 At the other end of the range much minor morbidity is knowingly accepted for the sake of other benefits.1" From the patient's point of view, empathy and reassurance before the operation, good (and safe) pain control after it, and freedom from the ill effects of anaesthesia are his only possible measures of quality. These are a good deal less easy to measure than the indices on which we currently focus. The vigour with which the specialty, both corporately and individually, is addressing itself to these problems is perhaps merely the obverse of the difficulty of making rapid progress. At all events, and despite its problems, the book which was written (and rewritten) at this meeting promises to be a milestone in the pursuit of high quality care in anaesthesia.