White Coat Hypertension: Definition, Terminology and Prevalence

Parati, Gianfranco; Ochoa, Juan Eugenio; Lombardi, Carolina; Bilo, Grzegorz

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-07410-8_1

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“…The appearance and comportment of doctors compounded patients' sense of unfamiliarity and distress. Since the end of the nineteenth century, it has long been documented that a physician's white coat can affect patients (Parati, 2014). Scientific studies in the 1980's proved that the white coat can influence the development hypertension through the phenomenon called ‗the white coat syndrome' (Mancia, et al, 1987).…”

Section: Types Of Surgical Missionsmentioning

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Access to Surgical Care in Rural Ecuador and the Role of Cinterandes Mobile Surgery in Addressing Barriers and Delays: A Qualitative and Biosocial Research Analysis

Vega

Franke

Riviello

et al. 2018

Journal of the American College of Surgeons

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Timely access to surgical care is crucial to the development of resilient healthcare systems, society and economic growth (Meara et al., 2015). Using a biosocial approach, this study aimed to (1) identify and understand barriers, delays and facilitators affecting rural patients' surgical care access; and (2) investigate the role that Cinterandes mobile surgery plays in surgical care in five rural Ecuadorian communities. This qualitative assessment employed an inductive, content analytic approach to document experiences and opinions on accessing surgical services in rural Ecuador. We sought to understand the perspectives on surgical access from a variety of informants including rural patients, healthcare providers, healthcare workers, healthcare leaders and rural community leaders. We conducted 36 multi-vocal semistructured interviews to include participants from five rural communities within Azuay and Cañar provinces in the Andean highlands, Morona-Santiago province in the Amazon rainforest, and Santa Elena province in the coastal region; and also interviewed members of the Cinterandes Foundation, an Ecuadorian mobile surgery program. iv We found nine barriers and delays in the care seeking process of rural patients. These include unfamiliarity with hospitals, doctors and urban settings; the responsibility of the family unit, distrust in the public healthcare system, health system inefficiencies, displacement of decision-making power, strong regulations on non-governmental organizations, unique remoteness of the Amazon, the negative impact that lack of supplies has on delivery of surgical care, and the conflict between the assumptions and practices about rural patient's use of traditional medicine. In addition, we found three facilitators including (1) the benefit of the family unit; (2) Socialización (an educational process that brings together rural patients and physicians to deepen patients' understandings of surgical illness, surgical care and break biosocial barriers); and (3) the importance of surgeons or physicians visiting patients' homes. In analyzing biosocial issues, we found that structural violence embedded in historical, social, political and healthcare system structures hindered rural patient's ability to access surgical care. We described how Cinterandes mobile surgery addresses the three delays in surgical care and described the Cinterandes mobile surgery model of care. Moreover, we redefined Cinterandes mobile surgery as a Community-Based Surgical Care Accompaniment Model. Based on this analysis we offer recommendations that we hope will inform and guide future decisions to optimize the surgical care delivery system and help decrease barriers to surgical care for rural patients.

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Section: Types Of Surgical Missionsmentioning

confidence: 99%