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Requirements for Technology: As Seen by Providers of Primary Health Care

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 March 2009

John Horder  and
David Metcalfe
John Horder
Affiliation:
Royal Free Hospital Medical School
David Metcalfe
Affiliation:
Manchester University Medical School
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This article is concerned with principles that might help to ensure that procedures and tools used in primary care are appropriate to people's needs and expectations. It urges attention, not first to technology, but to the broad range of purposes served by primary care and to the relevance of procedures to them. Other criteria for ensuring appropriateness are also proposed.

Type
Special Section: Technology in Primary Care and Ambulatory Settings
Information
International Journal of Technology Assessment in Health Care , Volume 5 , Issue 1 , January 1989 , pp. 91 - 101
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1989

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