Scientific studies
1. An international, multi-lingual
survey of patients' perceptions of HIV physicians and their
practice
This is a survey in
English, Spanish, French, and German of the experience of people
with HIV in receiving treatment for HIV from their physicians. It
is being done in collaboration with thebody.com, a leading
international source of patient-focused, high-quality information
on HIV and its treatment.
The survey explores mental and behavioural characteristics of the patient and the physician in interaction and its relation to survival with HIV infection and health-effective medical practice.
The survey explores mental and behavioural characteristics of the patient and the physician in interaction and its relation to survival with HIV infection and health-effective medical practice.
2. The Tuke Institute model of
health-effective medical practice
An evidence-based policy
study on biopsychosocial medical practice and how it is best
configured to meet the needs of people with acute and/or chronic
illness.
3. Best practice in HIV medicine: a
model of health-effective medical practice in a complex, chronic
illness
A study exploring the
comprehensive medical needs of people with HIV at all stages of
living with HIV with or without overt illness. The study aims to
determine an evidence-base for an integrated model of medical
practice that is the most health-effective feasible, as a model for
similar research in other complex illnesses.
4. A comprehensive measure of
illness-status for primary and secondary medical practice
A study to develop a
scientifically valid measure of illness-status in patients,
regardless of the initial nature of the illness. This measure is
used in case-formulation, the benchmarking of personalised medical
outcomes, the measurement of any given clinician's medical
effectiveness, and as the index of adequacy of practice for the
purposes of medical governance.
5. A measure of
clinician-performance predictive of individual medical outcomes
A study to determine
which components of clinicians' behaviours are important in
delivering health-effective outcomes in medical practice, including
the technical, interpersonal, and organisational and how to measure
them best.
6. A measure of
administrator-performance in facilitating medical service-delivery
A study to determine how
to measure the job-performance of administrators at various levels
of task in order to facilitate the work of the clinicians in
delivering health-effective medical services and in helping
patients achieve meaningful outcomes, including in
conflict-resolution.
7. Statistical and data-handling
methods in translating performance-data into useful
audit-information
A study to specify the
necessary methods and techniques in analysing performance-data and
how this can be translated efficiently and meaningfully to
non-specialist governance groups for the purpose of medical audit
and maintenance of medical-service standards.
Please contact the Institute if you are interested in collaborating on these projects or services; we would welcome hearing from you.