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Effective and honest communication remains at the core of the physician-patient relationship for managing risk and uncertainty in individual anesthesia cases to optimize outcomes and satisfaction.
This review highlights the critical distinction between risk and uncertainty in anesthesia, emphasizing the role of cognitive biases and the need for honest physician-patient communication.
Emphasizes honest communication in anesthesia risk discussions; leaves open prospective validation of outcome improvements.
This article discusses risk and uncertainty, both stochastic and epistemic, as it applies to anesthesia. It shows the difficulty in quantifying risk of individual case and the somewhat arbitrary and even incorrect and naive assignment of risk in individual patient care management. Effective and honest communication remains at the core of physician-patient relationship in discussing, evaluating and managing the individual case for optimum outcome as well as patients’ and their families' satisfaction and understanding.
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Pohorecki et al. (2013) conducted a review in Anesthesia risk and uncertainty. Effective and honest communication remains at the core of the physician-patient relationship for managing risk and uncertainty in individual anesthesia cases to optimize outcomes and satisfaction.
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