Downie, Robin and Macnaughton, Jane (2009) 'In defence of professional judgement.', Advances in psychiatric treatment., 15 (5). pp. 328-331.
Abstract
A judgement may be defined as an assertion made with evidence or good reason in a context of uncertainty. In psychiatry the uncertainty is inherent in the professional context and the evidence derives from academic literature and scientific studies as they are applied to a specific patient. The nature of the uncertainty and the factors that should inform professional judgement are explored in this article. Professional judgement currently faces two serious challenges: an obsession with numbers, which comes from within medicine, and the ‘patient choice’ agenda, which is politically inspired and comes from outside medicine. In this article we strive to defend professional judgement in the clinic against both challenges.
Item Type: | Article |
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Full text: | (AM) Accepted Manuscript Download PDF (114Kb) |
Status: | Peer-reviewed |
Publisher Web site: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1192/apt.bp.108.005926 |
Publisher statement: | This is an author-produced electronic version of an article accepted for publication in Advances in Psychiatric Treatment. The definitive publisher-authenticated version is available online at http://apt.rcpsych.org/ |
Date accepted: | No date available |
Date deposited: | 15 August 2012 |
Date of first online publication: | September 2009 |
Date first made open access: | No date available |
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