Auto-augmentation: ought it to be done?

Coronary revascularization, when it needs to be done it needs to be done.

Rapid advances in the fields of diagnostic and therapeutic cardiology have led to an increase in health care costs. This has resulted in cost curtailing measures imposed by health care managers, based on assumptions that utilization of these methods do not provide commensurate increases in health benefits (over-use). To control the presumably spiralling costs of health care, practice guidelines...

What Must, Ought, Is Worth and May Not Be Done

The Praxis model of reasons for action takes choice among alternative courses of action to be a matter of what must, ought, is worth and may not be done. It envisages practical decision making systems being given their reasons for action as requirements, duties, rules of valuation, proscriptions and contingent circumstances in a knowledge base. The model’s principles of selection and automated ...

Going Paperless: Can It Be Done?

Background. Since 1989, Beth Israel Hospital has been deploying an extensive online patient record (the OMR), which augmented a heavily used integrated hospital information system. Initially begun in a large primary care practice, the system is now used to share patient records among over 30 practices on three campuses. Although the system was intended to eliminate the need for paper, we found ...

Cricoid pressure, can it still be done?

They said it couldn't be done...

Introducing a new hobby for other people may inspire them to join with you. Reading, as one of mutual hobby, is considered as the very easy hobby to do. But, many people are not interested in this hobby. Why? Boring is the reason of why. However, this feel actually can deal with the book and time of you reading. Yeah, one that we will refer to break the boredom in reading is choosing they said ...