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1 online resource (xxii, 142 pages) : illustrations |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Introduction -- Definitions -- The evidence : the gap between clinical guidelines and clinical reality -- Determinants and explanatory models of clinical inertia -- The physician and evidence-based medicine -- To do or not to do : a critique of medical reason -- Overcoming true clinical inertia -- Conclusion : time for medical reason. |
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Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed December 5, 2014). |
| Summary |
Clinical practice guidelines were initially developed within the context of evidence-based medicine with the goal of putting medical research findings into practice. However, physicians do not always follow them, even when they seem to apply to the particular patient they have to treat. This phenomenon, known as clinical inertia, represents a significant obstacle to the efficiency of care and a major public health problem, the extent of which is demonstrated in this book. An analysis of its causes shows that it stems from a discrepancy between the objective, essentially statistical nature of. |
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Medical logic.
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Medicine -- Philosophy.
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Medical ethics.
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HEALTH & FITNESS / Holism.
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HEALTH & FITNESS / Reference.
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MEDICAL / Alternative Medicine.
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MEDICAL / Atlases.
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MEDICAL / Essays.
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MEDICAL / Family & General Practice.
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MEDICAL / Holistic Medicine.
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MEDICAL / Osteopathy.
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Medical ethics. (OCoLC)fst01014081
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Medical logic. (OCoLC)fst01014359
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Medicine -- Philosophy.
(OCoLC)fst01015007
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Medicine.
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medicine_xPhilosophy.
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Quality of Life_xResearch.
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Electronic books.
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Ratti, Claudia, translator.
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Intertie clinique. English
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Reach, Gérard Clinical Inertia : A Critique of Medical Reason Cham : Springer International Publishing,c2014 9783319098814 |
| ISBN |
9783319098821 (electronic bk.) |
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3319098829 (electronic bk.) |
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