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How Do You Make Decisions?
As I’ve mentioned in the Manifesto, patients and clients that we see each have unique and differentiating factors that make them unique when compared to other patients or clients. The way they make decisions, what factors they consider when making those decisions, and even what they value in the outcome of those decisions varies from person to person. The same holds true for clinicians. Each of us make clinical decisions based on our own perception of the world around us, our understanding of clinical evidence, and even personal experiences that we’ve had in the past.
How do these factors affect the way we make clinical decisions when treating patients?
My guest this week, Zach Walston, DPT from the Clinical Gap Podcast, is just the person to talk to about this topic. He’s the director of Quality & Research for PT Solutions, and he also hosts the Clinical Gap Podcast (I was a guest on the show a while back. Check out that episode here!)
What we cover in this Episode:
- How do humans make decisions?
- What are Heuristics?
- How does cognitive bias affect our decisions?
- Value in healthcare & value-based reimbursement
- Our understanding of Pain & Pain Science as an example for clinical decision-making
- Patient engagement & experience
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Rafael E. Salazar II, MHS, OTR/L (Rafi) is the Principal Owner of Rehab U Practice Solutions and the host of The Better Outcomes Show. He has experience in a variety of rehab settings, working with patients recovering from a variety of injuries and surgeries. Rafi has worked in a variety of settings, from orthopedic and musculoskeletal rehabilitation, to academia, and even healthcare consulting. He spent the majority of his clinical experience working at Charlie Norwood VA Medical Center, where he was the lead clinician and clinical education coordinator for the outpatient specialty rehab program. In this role, he treated many veterans with chronic pain and helped to establish an interdisciplinary pain management program. He has worked on projects ranging from patient engagement initiatives to marketing communication campaigns to a multi million dollar project assisting the State of Georgia’s Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Disabilities transition individuals out of state institutions to community residences. He also has experience as a core faculty member at Augusta University’s Occupational Therapy Program, as a Licensed Board Member on the GA State OT Board, and he serves on the Board of Directors for NBCOT. He works to help healthcare clinics and organizations deliver uniquely impactful patient experiences by improving service delivery through training & advisement and through courses & training programs.
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