What are risk-scoring tools? Clinical decisions Probability Currently experiencing Will experience (Slovis, 2018)
Risk-scoring tools are… Valuable Recommended Use is variable, often low Better at predicting clinical outcomes than doctors (Adams and Leveson, 2012) 58 (Plüddemann et al., 2014) 7-60% (Muller-Riemenschneider et al., 2010)
Act as a barrier to the doctor-patient relationship Previous literature Distrust in validity Low adoption Perceptions Act as a barrier to the doctor-patient relationship Too time consuming Sarazin et al. (2013)
WHAT ARE MEDICAL STUDENTS’ ATTITUDES TOWARDS CLINICAL RISK-SCORING TOOLS? A qualitative study exploring how medical students perceive risk-scoring tools F.S. Tomlinson um14ft@leeds.ac.uk T.A. Willis t.a.willis@leeds.ac.uk
Methods Recruitment and sampling Convenience sampling 8 participants 4th and 5th year medical students
Methods Data Collection Semi-structured interviews Audio-recorded Transcribed
Methods Data Analysis
Findings – Key Themes Risk-scoring tool features Practicalities Educational Factors
Theme 1: Risk-scoring tool features Potential to be acted upon Ability to guide history Evidence base “Without any guidance on how to interpret the score in terms of management… it’s not all that useful.” (P1)
Theme 2: Practicalities …even if something is fantastic, if it takes too long… a lot of people wouldn’t use it (P3) Ease of use Practical incentives
Theme 3: Educational Factors Teaching and learning Respected Clinicians Trust Presence in exams
Experience on placement Unnecessary for experienced doctors Observation Talking to clinicians Junior doctors Useful Used and found useful Used and found useful Junior doctors Useful Used and found useful Junior doctors Useful Used and found useful Junior doctors Useful Used and found useful Useful Junior doctors Useful Used and found useful Junior doctors Unnecessary for experienced doctors “tiresome” “pointless” Not used
What will happen if these views are maintained?
Experienced Clinicians b) Targeted teaching for students Not useful when experienced b Medical Students Experienced Clinicians Do not use a Not useful when experienced a) Targeted teaching for clinicians
Implications for Practice and Future Research Technology Targeted teaching
Limitations Convenience sampling Small sample size
Conclusion Medical students Practical barriers were in line with past literature – technology Risk-scoring tools were believed to hold less value for experienced doctors Targeted teaching
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