Thoughts on Giving Full and Accurate Information

Thoughts on Giving Full and Accurate Information

The ethical view that patients are entitled to honesty with regard to their diagnosis and treatment is discussed in this paper. Caution is advised with regard to how the truth is to be conveyed. Medical Practitioners need to be sensitive to context; the patient’s emotional needs; and the possible consequences of their grief and defence mechanisms. The effect of stereotypes in relation to certai...

Giving patients timely, accurate pricing.

Some thoughts on intelligence in information retrieval

Information retrieval is the process of selectively disseminating relevant information stored among a variety of information objects. A useful method of storing these objects adopts the notion of clustering, where similar objects are placed into homogeneous groups with the expectation that objects within the same group are similar and likely to be relevant to the same queries. The search proces...

Some Cautionary Thoughts on Information Warfare

O NE OF THE most curious characteristics of the United States military establishment since World War II has been its tendency to become slavishly addicted to fads. In the immediate aftermath of World War II, fascination with nuclear weapons to the exclusion of almost everything else led the Army to such unhappy experiments as the " pentomic divi­ sion " and the " Davy Crockett. " 1 The Air Forc...

Information Giving: Effects on Birth Outcomes and Patient Satisfaction

Production pressures make it increasingly less feasible for prenatal care providers to engage in meaningful information giving according to national guidelines. Managed care organizations rely on printed materials to augment information historically provided orally by physicians. This study examines the effects of mailing supplemental health information to mothers at home. Results of an anonymo...