Trainee Uncertainty around Intervening When Patients Decompensate.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Trainees in acute care specialties often grapple with the decision to perform an invasive procedure in a rapidly decompensating patient, for whom the benefits and risks are inherently uncertain. The difference between trainees who know when to act and when to seek supervision and those who do not is often linked to individual trainee psychological and cultural perceptions of uncertainty. But how much comfort with uncertainty relates to the situational context rather than the trainee traits is underexplored.

Objective

The objective of this study was to explore trainee actions around decompensating patients and assess the degree to which invasive intervention and supervision seeking depend on situational certainty or individual trait-based perceptions of uncertainty

SUBMITTER: Sibbald M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8787758 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature