Politser P E, Gastfriend D R, Bakin D, Nguyen L
Department of Health Policy and Management, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115.
Med Care. 1987 Dec;25(12 Suppl):S123-37. doi: 10.1097/00005650-198712001-00014.
We have shown how new concepts for displaying knowledge and data may overcome some of the limitations of existing decisionmaking and educational aids and how they may improve psychiatric diagnosis and education. Elsewhere, we illustrated how these concepts can also be applied in redesigning ordinary textbooks in many other areas of medicine. Using such ideas to simplify decisionmaking without oversimplifying and without reducing physician participation may help us to cope with the enormous growth of information and knowledge. This is a problem common to many areas of medicine, one that demands new ways of thinking about how to simplify educational methods.
