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Prevention and clinical complexity
Prevención y complejidad clínica
Juan Gérvasa,
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Autor para correspondencia. jgervasc@meditex.es
, Iona Heathb, Antonio Duránc, Joan Genéd
a Equipo CESCA, Buitrago de Lozoya, Madrid, España
b Caversham Practice, London, United Kingdom
c Técnicos de Salud S.A, Sevilla, España
d CAPSE. Consorci d’Atenció Primària de Salut Eixample, Barcelona, España
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with the aim of avoiding major harm in the future thanks to the detection of signs and symptoms of different degrees of relevance&#46; Generally&#44; prevention activity is provided to the patient as a complementary activity to clinical care and this also brings specific ethical problems with it&#44; which should not be ignored<a href="&#35;bib2" class="elsevierStyleCrossRefs"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">2</span></a>&#46; While some activities are well accepted by the public and scientific community&#44; such as the vaccination against poliomyelitis&#44; others are controversial&#44; such as the PSA determination for early prostate cancer diagnosis<a href="&#35;bib3" class="elsevierStyleCrossRefs"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">3</span></a>&#46;</p><p class="elsevierStylePara">Some aspects of clinical prevention are seen as a basic activity which almost obviates the need to develop clinical judgment&#46; For example&#44; if we accept the decision to carry out a mammogram screening on all women from the ages of 50 to 65 every two years&#44; in the medical office there is just one requirement to be included in the criteria&#44; which is that the woman should fulfill the criteria of age and the time elapsed since the last mammogram&#46; This apparent simplicity is strengthened by the use of tables and computers&#44; even in fields with high complexity such as cardiovascular risk&#46; But this on its own&#44; does not eliminate the need for decision making which has to take into account the complexity of a particular patient<a href="&#35;bib4" class="elsevierStyleCrossRefs"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">4</span></a><span class="elsevierStyleSup">&#44;</span><a href="&#35;bib5" class="elsevierStyleCrossRefs"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">5</span></a>&#46;</p><p class="elsevierStylePara">In this article the opposing forces that exist within the patient encounter between the apparent simplicity of the prevention activities and the complexity of clinical decision making are addressed&#44; from the point of view of the doctor&#46;</p><span class="elsevierStyleSectionTitle">Prudence in decision making when faced with uncertainty</span><p class="elsevierStylePara">Being a medical doctor implies carrying out rapid and appropriate clinical decisions under circumstances of uncertainty&#44; and this intrinsic uncertainty applies more to Family Medicine doctors&#47;General Practitioners than to specialists<a href="&#35;bib6" class="elsevierStyleCrossRefs"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">6</span></a><span class="elsevierStyleSup">&#44;</span><a href="&#35;bib7" class="elsevierStyleCrossRefs"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">7</span></a><span class="elsevierStyleSup">&#44;</span><a href="&#35;bib8" class="elsevierStyleCrossRefs"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">8</span></a><span class="elsevierStyleSup">&#44;</span><a href="&#35;bib9" class="elsevierStyleCrossRefs"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">9</span></a>&#46; Obviously&#44; this uncertainty needs to be limited and the scope of the unavoidable estimated&#44; as rapid decision making in conditions of uncertainty results in professional and personal angst&#44; as both the patient&#39;s health and the doctor&#39;s reputation are at stake&#46; For this reason it is essential to give the right response&#46; However&#44; despite making the best possible decision&#44; undesirable results are not always avoided&#44; including the death of the patient&#44; which adds to the feeling of failure and anxiety&#46; Unfortunately&#44; no matter how unavoidable uncertainty is in clinical practice&#44; students and doctors are not generally taught how to control feelings of failure and anxiety in their training&#44; or how to deal with them&#46;</p><p class="elsevierStylePara">There are two false solutions for artificially reducing uncertainty&#44; either by increasing the number of diagnostic tests &#40;and the generation of &#8216;hard data&#8217; in which the interpretation generates a vicious circle of yet more uncertainty&#41; or by increasing the preventive component in the medical encounters&#46; All medical encounters offer opportunities for preventive actions<a href="&#35;bib10" class="elsevierStyleCrossRefs"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">10</span></a>&#44; but the artificial filling of the encounter with preventative actions merely makes a considered decision in the face of uncertainty more difficult when dealing with patient suffering&#46; Instead of holding the balance between being a &#8216;healer&#8217; and a &#8216;scientist&#8217;&#44; the medical profession is slowly moving towards the illusory safety of the latter&#44; reinforced mainly by a biological interpretation of medicine based on biometric tests and on excessive prevention without any proper debate on the topic<a href="&#35;bib11" class="elsevierStyleCrossRefs"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">11</span></a>&#46;</p><p class="elsevierStylePara">Given that the agency relationship exists&#44; and will always exist&#44; in which the doctor makes decisions as a patient&#39;s agent<a href="&#35;bib12" class="elsevierStyleCrossRefs"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">12</span></a>&#44; it is essential that the doctor sees the case as unique&#44; and should take into account the circumstances and values of the patient&#44; which may be different in each medical encounter&#44; and should make appropriate and individualised decisions&#46; However&#44; habits should not be prescribed&#44; especially as a result of ignorance on the part of the professional regarding the patient&#39;s real motivations&#46; For example&#44; the source of pleasure and the reasons for living can be very different for each patient and for each doctor&#44; either because of personal circumstances&#44; or because of social class differences&#46; It is necessary to try to understand people and their decisions&#44; a very different approach from the deterministic one in which only &#8216;evidence&#8217; &#40;tests&#41; is considered&#44; and not the ambivalence and complexity of the human being&#46;</p><p class="elsevierStylePara">The simplified linear reasoning of cause and effect that underpins prevention postpones anxiety&#44; but does not solve the problems which are created by decision making in processes involving uncertainty&#46; In the face of anxiety and failure one possible&#44; practical and rational answer exists based on a responsible decision made after debate which eliminates irrational and destructive feelings of guilt&#46; When dealing with uncertainty there is no perfect answer&#59; what is needed is a considered one&#44; adapted to the circumstances and to the specific case and shared with the patient&#46; The aim is to do things well&#44; to make thoughtful decisions based on clinical judgment and on common sense&#46; The clinical reaction should be based on rational choice<a href="&#35;bib13" class="elsevierStyleCrossRefs"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">13</span></a>&#44; not on random preventative actions&#46; Rationality and sensitivity bring with them responsibility&#44; not anxiety or guilt&#44; and can be used to justify one&#39;s actions in judgment of bad praxis&#46;</p><span class="elsevierStyleSectionTitle">Complexity in preventive decision making</span><p class="elsevierStylePara">The apparent consistency of some of the instruments used in preventive activities&#44; such as protocols&#44; clinical guidelines and risk tables&#44; can result in the complexity of their use in practice being forgotten&#46; For example&#44; risk tables are used for decision making&#44; despite the fact there are no studies available that evaluate the impact of the leap from the knowledge of the population of origin from which the table is derived&#44; to the particular patient to whom the data are applied&#44; the so called &#8220;clinical-statistical tragedy&#8221;<a href="&#35;bib14" class="elsevierStyleCrossRefs"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">14</span></a><span class="elsevierStyleSup">&#44;</span><a href="&#35;bib15" class="elsevierStyleCrossRefs"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">15</span></a>&#46; Thus&#44; the preventive guides come to be applied routinely and indiscriminately without taking into account the particular individual context&#46;</p><p class="elsevierStylePara">Nevertheless&#44; even the supporters of risk tables acknowledge the complexity of the obvious&#46; Thus&#44; it can be read&#58; &#8216;It is an unquestionable fact that most of the tables are restricted to just a few risk factors &#40;there are other risk factors such as obesity&#44; family history and other emerging factors which the tables do not take into account&#41;&#44; and have a sensitivity which does not surpass 50&#37;&#44; and therefore have a low predictive power to identify individuals who will go on to have a fatal cardiovascular event&#46; Unfortunately&#44; any existing table is far from being an instrument of high precision&#44; and so should be considered as a useful tool in primary prevention in cardiovascular diseases but only if it does not replace clinical judgment&#44; and all exceptions and precautions are considered at the moment of implementation<a href="&#35;bib4" class="elsevierStyleCrossRefs"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">4</span></a>&#46;</p><p class="elsevierStylePara">Despite this call for prudence&#44; in the daily clinical practice a reductionist and linear view of cause and effect has been imposed&#44; which aspires to modify the unpredictable future with simple preventive measures&#46; Improvements in health have been attributed to health care activities carried out previously&#44; 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Thus the doctor should act as the patient&#39;s agent and not be blinded by norms and measures&#44; which while true within the population&#44; result in a over-simplification of the individual preventive and curative clinical decision<a href="&#35;bib21" class="elsevierStyleCrossRefs"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">21</span></a>&#44; in such a way that the patient could see himself simply as an anonymous being&#44; characterised by age and gender&#44; and little else&#44; to whom standards&#44; such as cardiovascular risk tables&#44; are applied&#46; Furthermore&#44; prevention often lacks negative feedback &#40;as has been demonstrated by screening of PSA of prostate cancer&#44; where everything is seen as good&#58; &#8220;if the test results are normal&#44; relief follows&#44; if the PSA is high a biopsy and prostatectomy will be carried out&#44; and so avoid one death by cancer&#8221;&#41; which complicates the situation further<a href="&#35;bib22" class="elsevierStyleCrossRefs"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">22</span></a>&#46;</p><p class="elsevierStylePara">Even in the case of extremely simple preventive decisions&#44; such as the carrying out of mammogram screening every two years among women between the ages of 50 and 65&#44; the situation becomes less simple in the clinical practice&#46; In this particular case&#44; the complexity stems from the difficulties in transferring sufficient and relevant information to the woman so that she can make her own informed and reasoned decision&#46; Thus false expectations and errors in the appreciation of risks&#44; benefits and harm due to the mammogram screening are considered to be a public health problem<a href="&#35;bib23" class="elsevierStyleCrossRefs"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">23</span></a><span class="elsevierStyleSup">&#44;</span><a href="&#35;bib24" class="elsevierStyleCrossRefs"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">24</span></a> which is not consistent with the simple and routine recommendation that &#8220;the mammogram saves lives&#8221;&#46; How does it save lives and how can women be adequately informed about the need to participate in a preventive activity which speeds up the diagnosis of silent cancers in one in seven cases&#44; and delays the diagnosis of aggressive cancer in one in nine cases&#63;<a href="&#35;bib25" class="elsevierStyleCrossRefs"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">25</span></a>&#46;</p><p class="elsevierStylePara">Prevention&#44; due to its complexity&#44; cannot be simply prescribed without serious justification&#46; Prevention also brings uncertainty<a href="&#35;bib26" class="elsevierStyleCrossRefs"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">26</span></a><span class="elsevierStyleSup">&#44;</span><a href="&#35;bib27" class="elsevierStyleCrossRefs"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">27</span></a>&#46; For example&#44; when prevention is offered to the elderly&#44; all that may be achieved is a change in the cause of death<a href="&#35;bib28" class="elsevierStyleCrossRefs"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">28</span></a>&#46; How is one informed and who decides&#63; Two questions which are also relevant in the other previously mentioned case&#44; and the determination of PSA for prostrate cancer screening<a href="&#35;bib3" class="elsevierStyleCrossRefs"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">3</span></a><span class="elsevierStyleSup">&#44;</span><a href="&#35;bib26" class="elsevierStyleCrossRefs"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">26</span></a>&#46;</p><span class="elsevierStyleSectionTitle">Conclusion</span><p class="elsevierStylePara">Decision making in the face of uncertainty is consubstantial with the medical encounter&#46; 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