Chapter Three Approaches To Clinical Decision-Making

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Problem: What is the health problem? Etiology: What is/are the contributory causes? Recommendations: What works to reduce the health impacts? Implementation: How can we get the job done?

The problem that we are facing is cervical cancer and what may be the cause of such a serious and life threatening disease. The burden of disease is astounding to say the least. The article states that in 2012 an estimated 12,170 cases of invasive cervical cancer will be diagnosed, and an estimated 4,220 women will die. The number of people that are diagnosed and die each year from this disease may sound astonishing but with medical professionals and researchers coming together to identify the true etiology of the disease may shed a light of hope to eventually finding a cure or by putting cervical cancer prevention measures into place.

The etiology of cervical cancer boils down to a few different potential issues. What causes squamous cells or glandular cells to become abnormal and develop into cancer isn't yet clear to clinicians. However,

Identify and differentiate the three basic approaches to clinical decision-making as outlined in Chapter 3. Give specific examples illustrating each approach. (10 points)

The three types of decision making approaches are that of informed consent, inform of decision, and shared decision making. “Inform of decision” is an approach used by clinicians that are confident in themselves and their potential decisions they may make to further a patients’ treatment. This particular approach implies that all important information may be withheld from the patient and the clinician may have the power to make decisions that are in the patients’ best interest. According to the text, clinicians in the past rarely informed their patents that they had cancer. They thought that the news would possibly make the individual depressed which could potentially interfere with the treatments that were