Quaternary prevention: reviewing the concept: Quaternary prevention aims to protect patients from medical harm [PDF]
European Journal of General Practice, 2018 Background: According to the Wonca International Dictionary for General/Family Practice Quaternary Prevention is defined as: ‘Action taken to identify patient at risk of overmedicalization, to protect him from new medical invasion, and to suggest to him ...
Carlos Martins +3 more
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Why is quaternary prevention important in prevention? [PDF]
Revista de Saúde Pública, 2017 Quaternary prevention consists in the identification of persons at risk of excessive medicalization and their protection against new unnecessary interventions, avoiding iatrogenic damages.
Charles Dalcanale Tesser
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Quaternary Prevention, an Answer of Family Doctors to Overmedicalization [PDF]
International Journal of Health Policy and Management, 2015 In response to the questioning of Health Policy and Management (HPAM) by colleagues on the role of rank and file family physicians in the same journal, the author, a family physician in Belgium, is trying to highlight the complexity and depth of the work
Marc Jamoulle
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Quaternary prevention and gestational diabetes mellitus
Indian Journal of Endocrinology and Metabolism, 2017 Sanjay Kalra +2 more
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Quaternary prevention: a balanced approach to demedicalisation. [PDF]
Br J Gen Pract, 2019 In 1982, the Journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners published Ivan Illich’s article ‘Medicalization in Primary Care’.1 Illich held a paradoxical belief that GPs could contribute to the healthy process of demedicalisation, that is: ‘...
Norman AH, Tesser CD.
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Quaternary prevention: Need of the hour
Journal of Family Medicine and Primary Care, 2014 Prevention is primarily categorized as Primordial, Primary, Secondary and Tertiary. Now the concept of "Quaternary Prevention" is also introduced. This editorial article discusses need of Quaternary prevention in current scenario of clinical practice.
Harshal T Pandve
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Medical overuse and quaternary prevention in primary care – A qualitative study with general practitioners [PDF]
BMC Family Practice, 2017 Background Medical overuse is a topic of growing interest in health care systems and especially in primary care. It comprises both over investigation and overtreatment.
Kathrin Alber +3 more
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Implementation of Quaternary Prevention in the Korean Healthcare System: Lessons From the 2015 Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus Outbreak in the Republic of Korea [PDF]
Journal of Preventive Medicine and Public Health, 2015 Quaternary prevention should be implemented to minimize harm to patients because the ultimate goal of medicine is to prevent disease and promote health.
Jong-Myon Bae
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Quaternary Prevention and the Challenges to Develop a Good Practice; Comment on “Quaternary Prevention, an Answer of Family Doctors to Overmedicalization” [PDF]
International Journal of Health Policy and Management, 2015 The article analyzes literature problems using as a parameter the quaternary prevention concept, introducing guidelines to have good shared decisions that avoid overdiagnosis and overtreatment and improve the quality of life.
Hamilton Wagner
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Differentiating clinical care from disease prevention: a prerequisite for practicing quaternary prevention [PDF]
Cadernos de Saúde Pública, 2016 : This article contends that the distinction between clinical care (illness) and prevention of future disease is essential to the practice of quaternary prevention.
Charles Dalcanale Tesser +1 more
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