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Medical illuminations : using evidence, visualization and statistical thinking to improve healthcare / Howard Wainer, National Board of Medical Examiners.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wainer, Howard.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Medical innovations.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (192 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- New York, N.Y. : Oxford University Press, 2014.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Is it sensible to screen for breast or prostate cancer? Should the locations of cancer clusters be made available to the general public? When a doctor wants to perform major surgery and there's no chance for a second opinion, do you agree?The answers to these questions are not as black and white as they may first appear. Medical Illuminations presents thirteen contemporary medical topics, from the diminishing value of mammograms to how to decide if a hip needs to be replaced, to understanding cancer maps. In each case it illustrates how modern tools of statistical thinking and statistical grap
- Contents:
- pt. 1. Communicating with the public
- pt. 2. Some advances
- pt. 3. Another hindrance to progress.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-164604-0
- 0-19-164603-2
- OCLC:
- 856628319
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