The case for reassessment of health care technology. Once is not enough.
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Summary
This work examines four clinical practices--electronic fetal monitoring, episiotomy, electroencephalography, and hysterectomy--to illustrate the need to continuously reassess existing technologies and to challenge the current inertia in this critical arena of health practice.
- Type
- article
- Published
- 1990-07-11
- Cited by
- 94
- References
- 43
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Keywords
Medicine, Family medicine
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- Am I my brother's warden? Responding to the unethical or incompetent colleague.
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- Technology assessment and reimbursement for future new imaging technologies.
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