EG: I think it depends on how much friction you can take out of the physician process, but also the flip side of it is, if physicians are telling people that they should consider it, that's actually a really powerful way, as well, for people to participate.
After the recruitment, the patients are submitted to the inclusion and exclusion criteria by the physician (Process A).
(Focus group IV, GP intern 5) The patient physician process comprised the importance of communication skills, e.g. the ability of the physician to ask the right questions in order to make the right diagnosis.
As highlighted in Introduction, modern knowledge of cognition has taught us that most people, including physicians process information using both system I (fast, intuitive) and system II (slow, deliberative) reasoning at different times but few investigators have examined how to teach physicians to integrate both modes of reasoning in arriving at therapeutic strategies.
Therefore, to better understand the ICU admission decision-making process for the elderly patients, there is a need to evaluate both the ED and ICU physician triage processes.
While we have found that this approach is acceptable in principle to many Ontario physicians, 45 processes to confirm individual physician agreement have not been determined for the entire CCC programme which comprises an estimated 7000 primary care physicians.
The American Geriatrics Society and other groups sponsor minifellowships, weekend workshops, Web seminars and online courses, and add material to the physician relicensing process that occurs every decade.
By substituting trained staff members for physicians, standardizing processes and improving information technology, it has been able to make care more efficient without any adverse effect on patient outcomes.
Automating or at least aiding such efforts requires understanding physicians' reasoning processes and their use of domain knowledge.
(Hospital board member, also a physician) "The process (of disciplinary litigation) is painful and could take up to 2 years.
