Resisting cookbook medicine

From America: manpower, money, and cookbook medicine.

Credibility, cookbook medicine, and common sense: guidelines and the college.

vJuidelines and their siblings (protocols and algorithms) are not new (3). However, their popularity has burgeoned, especially when compared with their more restrictive first cousins (standards, prediction rules, and decision rules) (Table 1). They have been hailed as the salvation from the wide variations in medical care and simultaneously lamented as harbingers of the ruination of medicine as...

Practice guidelines and cookbook medicine--who are the cooks?

In in era of managed competition, cost-elective medical care becomes a major goal of any health care delivery system. Such a system will generate practice guidelines to accomplish this goal . For example, in our own medical center, the Division of General Internal Medicine has just written guidelines on the proper use of echocardiography in their prepaid and health care populations . Other guid...

Resisting medicines: a synthesis of qualitative studies of medicine taking.

The study aimed to synthesise qualitative studies of lay experiences of medicine taking. Most studies focused on the experience of those not taking their medicine as prescribed, with few considering those who reject their medicines or accept them uncritically. Most were concerned with medicines for chronic illnesses. The synthesis revealed widespread caution about taking medicines and highlight...

Java Cookbook

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