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Medical Conditions and Massage Therapy: A Decision Tree Approach (LWW Massage Therapy and Bodywork Educational Series) Present this quick, effective method for assessing and managing common medical conditions! The central tool of this text is the decision tree, a simple flowchart that helps students quickly determine the optimal massage therapy approach... [Read more of this review]

Kindred Spirit, Kindred Care: Making Health Decisions on Behalf of Our Animal Companions Pets are now considered family members, and at the same time, profound changes are taking place in veterinary medicine. Procedures formerly available only for people are now also options for animals, giving rise to both tougher decisions and higher costs. To help... [Read more of this review]

Nursing Home Placement and End of Life Decisions: Help for Families (Families caring for Older Adults) This is one program in the Families Caring for Older Adults series of educational modules developed by CoHealth for family members who are trying to understand the physical, mental and emotional changes that accompany aging, how to decide what is... [Read more of this review]

Children, Families, and Health Care Decision Making (Issues in Biomedical Ethics) Ross here presents an original and controversial look at the moral principles that guide parents in making health care decisions for their children, and the role of children in the decision-making process. She opposes the current movement to increase child autonomy, in... [Read more of this review]

Deciding for Others: The Ethics of Surrogate Decision Making (Studies in Philosophy and Health Policy) This book is the most comprehensive treatment available of one of the most urgent–and yet in some respects most neglected–problems in bioethics: decisionmaking for incompetents. Part I develops a general theory for making treatment and... [Read more of this review]

Clinical Decision Support: The Road Ahead This book examines the nature of medical knowledge, how it is obtained, and how it can be used for decision support. It provides complete coverage of computational approaches to clinical decision-making. Chapters discuss data integration into healthcare information systems and delivery to point of care for... [Read more of this review]

Meta-Analysis, Decision Analysis, and Cost-Effectiveness Analysis: Methods for Quantitative Synthesis in Medicine Meta-analysis, decision analysis, and cost-effectiveness analysis are the cornerstones of evidence-based medicine. These related quantitative methods have become essential tools in the formulation of clinical and public policy based on... [Read more of this review]

Trust in health infomediaries [An article from: Decision Support Systems] This digital document is a journal article from Decision Support Systems, published by Elsevier in 2007. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Media Library immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.Description: Health... [Read more of this review]

Decision Making in Health Care: Theory, Psychology, and Applications (Cambridge Series on Judgment and Decision Making) Decisions made by physicians, patients, health policy makers and health insurers determine the quality of health care that is needed and provided for. This up-to-date, comprehensive overview of medical decision making reveals a rapidly... [Read more of this review]

How to Become Smarter You can download and read this book for free (see the download link in the free sample) and you will have to pay only if you enjoy the book. This text describes techniques for improving mental abilities. Some of the things it can help you to achieve include the following: Depending on circumstances, use different lifestyles that... [Read more of this review]