What is a game in which the quality of medical care improves when a doctor plays?

ByValentin Ottone

Root canal treatment for painless cariesHas been developed,Multipotent cells contained in fat, The discovery of the possibility of cardiac cell regeneration, various discoveries of day to day and progress of science contribute to the development of medical science. However, it is the doctors and nurses who use the new treatments and medications on site, and a slightly different research has been conducted to improve their performance and "A game in which the quality of medical care improves when a doctor plays"Was born.

When Doctors Play This Game, You Get Better Medical Care: Shots - Health News: NPR
http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2014/05/21/314255998/when-doctors-play-this-game-you-get-better-medical-care


According to a survey conducted at eight hospitals in Boston, when doctors and nurses decide to treat hypertension patients while doing "certain games", patients are more likely to be diagnosed than patients diagnosing treatment while reading medical books or dissertations It turned out that the speed at which blood pressure returns to normal value becomes faster. This research result isCirculationIt is published in.

I worked on this researchVA Boston Healthcare SystemServe as a surgeon atB. Price KerfootMr. Mr. Kerfoot made quizzes on medication treatment in text format and asked doctors and nurses to respond and examined the correct answer rate. It seems that this quiz was sent by e-mail to doctors and nurses to be surveyed, but in order to increase the response rateIStockWe gathered funny pictures from him, added a more ridiculous caption, posted quizzes on medication under it, and sent it by e-mail.

Mr. Kerfoot sent an e-mail with this image and a quiz. The image is allegiance but the quiz itself is a serious content.


The joked photographs and captions did not mean anything but served to enhance the motivation of the respondent.


It was a competitive element hidden in the game that contributed greatly to eliciting the motivation of doctors over photographs and captions. In the hospital where Mr. Kerfoot works, there seems to be a large number of doctors and nurses to be studied, and here there are prepared score boards for describing the results of quizzes, who is always performing the top score It was supposed to be able to understand. In this way, it seems that the element of "Compete the game with others" brings out the motivation of the surveyed doctors and nurses, and the results of the quiz have been improved.

The doctor is also experimental result that makes you realize again that you are a person.