As brain-wave technologies get cheaper and more popular, some company founders hope that consumers, who seem to be acclimating to devices like the increasingly ubiquitous Fitbit, will consider other, more cumbersome devices and procedures.
She writes that this explains the difference between the salary of a general practitioner and that of a specialist, who is more likely to prescribe and profit from such costly devices and procedures.
In addition, he served as a founding member and officer of the American Association of Clinical Anatomists (AACA), authored a widely used anatomy textbook "Essentials of Clinical Anatomy", and developed many surgical devices and procedures.
From laptops to double-glazed windows, consumers have ready access to comparative studies from consumer magazines, independent testing bodies and the like.When it comes to health care, however, comparative-effectiveness studies for new drugs, devices and procedures are rare.
The committee has authority under state law to determine which medical devices and procedures Washington will cover for state employees, Medicaid patients and injured workers, about 750,000 people in all.
The randomized clinical trial, long the gold standard of medical research, supposedly provides the most reliable data regarding which drugs, devices and procedures prove effective on real patients and which don't.
He also notes the existence at the time of safety devices and procedures that could have saved the workers -- enclosed fireproof stairways, firewalls, fire doors, automatic sprinklers and required fire drills -- but reports that they were used almost nowhere in New York City.
@MatthewHerper The Medicine Show David thinks that doctors will somehow, through some magic intuition, act as a filter for which drugs, devices and procedures work.
