Hope or hype the obsession with medical advances and the high cost of false promises /

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主要作者: Deyo, Richard A.
企業作者: ebrary, Inc
其他作者: Patrick, Donald L.
格式: 電子 電子書
語言:英语
出版: New York : AMACOM, American Management Association, c2005.
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書本目錄:
  • Can there be too much of a good thing? the hazards of uncritically embracing medical advances
  • What's the problem? don't we need lifesaving new treatments?
  • Medical innovations and American culture: the call of the sirens
  • Why more isn't always better: red herrings, side effects, and superbugs
  • Why newer isn't always better: unpleasant surprises, recalls, and learning curves
  • Social hazards: what we lose by uncritical use of new treatments
  • How things really work: opinion makers and regulators of medical advances
  • What will you swallow? how drug companies get you to buy more expensive drugs than you may need
  • Making friends, playing monopoly, and dirty tricks: other industry strategies
  • Stacking the deck? how to get the "right" answer in clinical research
  • "Cancer cured--film at 11:00": the media's role in disseminating medical advances
  • Doctors and hospitals: fueling the drive for new and more
  • Advocacy groups: Mother Teresa's waiting room
  • Holes in the safety net: the FDA and the FTC
  • Ineffective. inferior or needlessly costly new drugs
  • Medical devices that disappoint
  • Ineffective or needlessly extensive surgery
  • Weight loss technology: shedding pounds from your waistline or your wallet?
  • For doctors: evidence-based medicine
  • For insurers and researchers: pay now or pay more later
  • For all decision makers: getting value for money
  • For government: regulatory approaches to improve the dissemination of medical innovations
  • For consumers: shared decision making.
  • Can there be too much of a good thing? the hazards of uncritically embracing medical advances
  • What's the problem? don't we need lifesaving new treatments?
  • Medical innovations and American culture: the call of the sirens
  • Why more isn't always better: red herrings, side effects, and superbugs
  • Why newer isn't always better: unpleasant surprises, recalls, and learning curves
  • Social hazards: what we lose by uncritical use of new treatments
  • How things really work: opinion makers and regulators of medical advances
  • What will you swallow? how drug companies get you to buy more expensive drugs than you may need
  • Making friends, playing monopoly, and dirty tricks: other industry strategies
  • Stacking the deck? how to get the "right" answer in clinical research
  • "Cancer cured--film at 11:00": the media's role in disseminating medical advances
  • Doctors and hospitals: fueling the drive for new and more
  • Advocacy groups: Mother Teresa's waiting room
  • Holes in the safety net: the FDA and the FTC
  • Useless, harmful, or marginal: popular treatments that caused unnecessary disability, dollar costs, or death
  • Ineffective or inferior new drugs
  • Medical devices that disappoint
  • Ineffective or needlessly extensive surgery
  • Weight loss technology: shedding pounds from your waistline or your wallet?
  • Crossing the threshold: improving the transition from "experimental" to "standard care"
  • For doctors: evidence-based medicine
  • For insurers and researchers: pay now or pay more later
  • For all decision makers: getting value for money
  • For government: regulatory approaches to improve the dissemination of medical innovations
  • For consumers: shared decision making.