Planning Medical Care

Supporting Temporal Information in Medical Care Planning

The problems associated with planning and managing patient treatment through complex care settings are significant. It has long been realised that support tools are invaluable in ensuring quality and consistency of care in a domain characterised by complex information spread over widely differing contexts. This paper focuses on the temporal nature of medical support tools and describes structur...

Change planning in medical education

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Medical Planning Commission

Medical Equipment Planning

Healthcare providers worldwide are facing an increasingly competitive environment and, in response, are downsizing to reduce costs and improve efficiency. Providers that are unable or unwilling to become more efficient will close. To stay in business, healthcare institutions must consider the cost of medical equipment and plan accordingly. Policies based on sound principles and experience preve...

Medical History and Medical Care

that the nursing sisters of a French asylum recognized that a patient's behaviour seemed to be that of an epileptic, but she does notfall. 'Les religieuses me disent: "elle est mechante comme une epileptique, mais elle ne tombe pas." ' The revision has taken into account such concepts as psychomotor epilepsy and temporal lobe epilepsy, 'which were as yet rare or non-existent at the writing of t...