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Foreword; Nonadherence by Patients; Nonadherence by Doctors; Conclusion; References; Foreword to the French Edition; References; Contents; 1: Introduction; Four Perspectives; References; 2: Definitions; Clinical Inertia; Therapeutic Inertia and Clinical Inertia; Clinical Practice Guidelines; Evidence-Based Medicine; Evidence Practice Gap; Medical Error; What Is Not Clinical Inertia; Formal Definition of Clinical Inertia; Definition: Physician Behavior Falls Under Clinical Inertia If and Only If; References; 3: The Evidence: The Gap Between Guidelines and Clinical Reality
Introduction: Highlighting the Existence of the Phenomenon and Its ConsequencesConsequences of Clinical Inertia; Analysis of Clinical Inertia in Different Diseases; Diabetes; Clinical Inertia in Hospitals; Psychological Insulin Resistance; Clinical Inertia and Monitoring of Diabetic Patients; Hypertension; Description of Barriers to Treatment Intensification in the Case of Hypertension; Hyperlipidemia; Cardiovascular Risk Prevention; Other Conditions Where One Can Highlight the Clinical Inertia Phenomenon; Heart Failure; Management of Valvular Heart Disease
Complete Arrhythmia Due to Atrial FibrillationAsthma; Osteoporosis; References; 4: Determinants and Explanatory Models of Clinical Inertia; Determinants of Clinical Inertia; Initial Explanations: Denial, Exaggerated Use of "Soft Reasons" and Physician Lack of Training on the Principle of Titration; Competing Demands; The Effect of Uncertainty; Poor Appreciation of the Actual Situation of the Patient; Characteristics of the Physician; The Effect of Belonging to an Ethnic Minority and Being Disadvantaged; The Doctor, Her Patient and the Health Care System
Physician Clinical Inertia and Patient Nonadherence Theoretical Explanatory Models of Clinical Inertia; The Knowledge-Attitude-Behavior-Result Model; Barriers in Knowledge; Barriers in Attitudes; Barriers in Behavior; The Awareness-Agreement-Adoption-Adherence Model; A Symmetrical Model Involving Physician and Patient: The Management of Dyslipidemia in Women; Physician Guideline Compliance Model; Another Psychological Model Applied to Comprehension of Clinical Inertia: The Regulatory Focus Theory; References; 5: The Physician and Evidence-Based Medicine; A New Way to Practice Medicine
Objectives of Evidence-Based Medicine Data and Guidelines: Different Levels of Evidence; What Is Not Evidence-Based Medicine; Evidence-Based Medicine: Clinical Practice Assisted by the Development of Clinical Practice Guidelines; Clinical Practice in the Context of Evidence-Based Medicine; Clinical Practice Guidelines, Assistance in Medical Decisions in the Evidence-Based Medicine State of Mind; Evidence-Based Medicine, Medicine Practiced Within a Context of Uncertainty; Uncertainty Within the Field of Diagnosis; Bayes' Theorem; Uncertainty Within the Therapeutic Field
Introduction: Highlighting the Existence of the Phenomenon and Its ConsequencesConsequences of Clinical Inertia; Analysis of Clinical Inertia in Different Diseases; Diabetes; Clinical Inertia in Hospitals; Psychological Insulin Resistance; Clinical Inertia and Monitoring of Diabetic Patients; Hypertension; Description of Barriers to Treatment Intensification in the Case of Hypertension; Hyperlipidemia; Cardiovascular Risk Prevention; Other Conditions Where One Can Highlight the Clinical Inertia Phenomenon; Heart Failure; Management of Valvular Heart Disease
Complete Arrhythmia Due to Atrial FibrillationAsthma; Osteoporosis; References; 4: Determinants and Explanatory Models of Clinical Inertia; Determinants of Clinical Inertia; Initial Explanations: Denial, Exaggerated Use of "Soft Reasons" and Physician Lack of Training on the Principle of Titration; Competing Demands; The Effect of Uncertainty; Poor Appreciation of the Actual Situation of the Patient; Characteristics of the Physician; The Effect of Belonging to an Ethnic Minority and Being Disadvantaged; The Doctor, Her Patient and the Health Care System
Physician Clinical Inertia and Patient Nonadherence Theoretical Explanatory Models of Clinical Inertia; The Knowledge-Attitude-Behavior-Result Model; Barriers in Knowledge; Barriers in Attitudes; Barriers in Behavior; The Awareness-Agreement-Adoption-Adherence Model; A Symmetrical Model Involving Physician and Patient: The Management of Dyslipidemia in Women; Physician Guideline Compliance Model; Another Psychological Model Applied to Comprehension of Clinical Inertia: The Regulatory Focus Theory; References; 5: The Physician and Evidence-Based Medicine; A New Way to Practice Medicine
Objectives of Evidence-Based Medicine Data and Guidelines: Different Levels of Evidence; What Is Not Evidence-Based Medicine; Evidence-Based Medicine: Clinical Practice Assisted by the Development of Clinical Practice Guidelines; Clinical Practice in the Context of Evidence-Based Medicine; Clinical Practice Guidelines, Assistance in Medical Decisions in the Evidence-Based Medicine State of Mind; Evidence-Based Medicine, Medicine Practiced Within a Context of Uncertainty; Uncertainty Within the Field of Diagnosis; Bayes' Theorem; Uncertainty Within the Therapeutic Field