%0 Journal Article
%T Teaching Patient-Centered Safety-Netting in Primary Care | OMICS International
%A Silverston P
%J -
%D 2016
%R 10.4172/2161-0711.1000447
%X In primary care, it is common for patients to present during the early stages of illness with non-specific symptoms, at which time the positive clinical findings in the history and examination that enable a clinician to make a firm diagnosis, or to discriminate between a serious and minor illness, may not have developed. Where diagnostic uncertainty exists, there is a need for the doctor to provide safety-netting advice so as to reduce the risk of misdiagnosis inherent in making a diagnosis at this early stage in the patient¡¯s illness. It is important that medical students and junior doctors learn the principles and practices of safety-netting, including the patient¡¯s perspective of why safety-netting advice is required and how best to communicate this advice to the patient in a way that is comprehensible to them. This article discusses how simple visual models can be used in the teaching of safetynetting skills to help discuss the rationale for safety-netting with the patient
%K Primary care
%K Safety-netting advice
%K Models of illness
%K Safe practice
%K Protective medicine
%K omics
%K open access
%K omics publishing group
%K open access publisher
%K open access publishers
%K open access publications
%K open access journals
%K open access artcles
%K omics group
%K omicsonline
%U https://www.omicsonline.org/open-access/teaching-patientcentered-safetynetting-in-primary-care-2161-0711-1000447.php?aid=75862