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Publication Date: 1978
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Evaluation of Medical Practices
Frazier, Howard S.; Hiatt, Howard H.
Science, 200, 4344, 875-8, May 78
Evaluation of the efficacy of a medical intervention requires measurements of both its benefits and risks as compared to those of alternative forms of management. The requisite measurements are more difficult to make than this description suggests, and the accumulation of information is inhibited by certain characteristics of our pattern of health care. (Author/BB)
Descriptors: Economics, Health, Medical Care Evaluation, Medicine, Moral Values, Patients, Physicians, Primary Health Care
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