Abstract
WITH neither the time nor the resources available to prevent, detect, or treat every disorder in every patient, which preventive, diagnostic, or therapeutic interventions should take priority? When a physician has a few spare minutes to spend with a patient, should that time be devoted to a blood pressure check, a counseling session about dietary fat, an inquiry about possible symptoms of transient cerebral ischemia, or a demonstration of how to use nicotine chewing gum?Plenty of experts are quick to tell us how we should spend this valuable time; there are now even task forces and professional review bodies . . .
Keywords
MedicinePsychological interventionIntensive care medicineSession (web analytics)Task (project management)Spare partPhysical therapyMedical emergencyPsychiatryOperations management
MeSH Terms
Decision MakingEvaluation Studies as TopicHumansHypertensionModelsTheoreticalProbabilityResearch DesignRisk FactorsTherapeutics
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Andreas Laupacis,
David L. Sackett,
Robin S. Roberts
(1988).
An Assessment of Clinically Useful Measures of the Consequences of Treatment.
New England Journal of Medicine
, 318
(26)
, 1728-1733.
https://doi.org/10.1056/nejm198806303182605
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- DOI
- 10.1056/nejm198806303182605
- PMID
- 3374545