Rationalizing medical work : decision-support techniques and medical practices /

"Our response to the skyrocketing cost and nonuniform delivery of medical care has been a call for the rationalizing of medical practice through decision-support techniques. These tools, which include protocols, decision analysis, and expert systems, have generated much debate. Advocates argue...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Berg, Marc
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©1997.
Series:Inside technology.
Subjects:
Medicine > Decision making.
Nursing care plans.
Decision making > Mathematical models.
Expert systems (Computer science)
Patient Care Planning
Decision Support Techniques
Expert Systems
Médecine > Prise de décision.
Plans de soins.
Prise de décision > Modèles mathématiques.
Systèmes experts (Informatique)
MEDICAL > Family & General Practice.
MEDICAL > Osteopathy.
MEDICAL.
MEDICAL > Holistic Medicine.
HEALTH & FITNESS > Reference.
MEDICAL > Essays.
MEDICAL > Alternative Medicine.
HEALTH & FITNESS > Holism.
Decision support systems.
Medische handelingen.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 1. The Withering Flower of Our Civilization: Reconceptualizing Postwar Medical Practice
  • 2. Multiple Rationalities: The Different Voices of Decision-Support Techniques
  • 3. Getting a Tool to Work: Disciplining a Practice to a Formalism
  • 4. Of Nodes, Nurses, and Negotiations: The Localization of a Tool
  • 5. Supporting Decision-Support Techniques: Medical Work and Formal Tools
  • 6. Producing Tools and Practices.

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