Medical Decision Making
61Circumcision — This article is about male circumcision. For female circumcision, see Female genital mutilation. Circumcision Intervention Circumcision being performed in central Asia, possibly Turkmenistan c. 1865–1872. Restored albumen …
62Vimla L. Patel — Vimla Lodhia Patel, PhD, is a Fijian born Canadian cognitive psychologist and biomedical informaticist. She pioneered the use of cognitive science methods and theories in research pertaining to medical problem solving. In addition, she has… …
63John Wennberg — John E. Jack Wennberg is the pioneer and leading researcher of unwarranted variation in the healthcare industry. Through four decades of work, Wennberg has documented the geographic variation in the healthcare that patients in the United States… …
64Telephone triage — is defined as the management of patient health concerns and symptoms via a telephone interaction (telecommunications) by “advice nurses”.Telephone triage utilizes an older form of technology (telephone lines) and thus, preceded telemedicine and… …
65Dynamic treatment regime — In medical research, a dynamic treatment regime (DTR) or adaptive treatment strategy is a set of rules for choosing effective treatments for individual patients. The treatment choices made for a particular patient are based on that individual s… …
66Health Dialog — Infobox Company company name = Health Dialog, Inc. company | company type = Private company slogan = foundation = 1997 location = Boston, Massachusetts key people = George Bennett, Chris McKown industry = Disease Management (health) num employees …
67Health care reform in the United States — ] Current estimates put U.S. health care spending at approximately 16% of GDP. [http://www.cms.hhs.gov/NationalHealthExpendData/25 NHE Fact Sheet.asp#TopOfPage National Health Expenditure Data: NHE Fact Sheet, ] Centers for Medicare and Medicaid… …
68Cost-Effectiveness Analysis Registry — The Cost Effectiveness Analysis Registry was developed by the Center for the Evaluation of Value and Risk in Health at the Institute for Clinical Research and Health Policy Studies, Tufts Medical Center, Boston, MA. The Registry contains detailed …
69Harvey V. Fineberg — Harvey Fineberg is President of the Institute of Medicine. He served as Provost of Harvard University from 1997 to 2001, following thirteen years as Dean of the Harvard School of Public Health. He has devoted most of his academic career to the… …
70Steven Schwartz (vice-chancellor) — Steven Schwartz (born 1946) became the Vice Chancellor of Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia on February 10 2006. He was previously Vice Chancellor of Brunel University in the UK and of Murdoch University in Western Australia.Schwartz is a …
