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Secondary analysis of electronic health records
This book trains the next generation of scientists representing different disciplines to leverage the data generated during routine patient care. It formulates a more complete lexicon of evidence-based recommendations and support shared, ethical decision making by doctors with their patients. Diagno...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Cham, Switzerland :
Springer,
2016.
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| Physical Description: |
1 online resource (xxi, 428 pages) : illustrations (some color) |
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| Online Access: | SpringerLink - Click here for access |
| Summary: | This book trains the next generation of scientists representing different disciplines to leverage the data generated during routine patient care. It formulates a more complete lexicon of evidence-based recommendations and support shared, ethical decision making by doctors with their patients. Diagnostic and therapeutic technologies continue to evolve rapidly, and both individual practitioners and clinical teams face increasingly complex ethical decisions. Unfortunately, the current state of medical knowledge does not provide the guidance to make the majority of clinical decisions on the basis of evidence. The present research infrastructure is inefficient and frequently produces unreliable results that cannot be replicated. Even randomized controlled trials (RCTs), the traditional gold standards of the research reliability hierarchy, are not without limitations. They can be costly, labor intensive, and slow, and can return results that are seldom generalizable to every patient population. Furthermore, many pertinent but unresolved clinical and medical systems issues do not seem to have attracted the interest of the research enterprise, which has come to focus instead on cellular and molecular investigations and single-agent (e.g., a drug or device) effects. For clinicians, the end result is a bit of a "data desert" when it comes to making decisions. The new research infrastructure proposed in this book will help the medical profession to make ethically sound and well informed decisions for their patients. |
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Open access. |
| Physical Description: |
1 online resource (xxi, 428 pages) : illustrations (some color) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: | 9783319437422 3319437429 3319437402 9783319437408 |
| Access: | Open access. |