The Health Care Crisis: End or Beginning of the Heyday of Medical Decision Support Systems?

T. Timpka

doi:10.1055/s-0038-1635047

Methods of Information in Medicine, Table of Contents

Methods Inf Med 1994; 33(04): 332-335
DOI: 10.1055/s-0038-1635047

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The Health Care Crisis: End or Beginning of the Heyday of Medical Decision Support Systems?

T. Timpka

¹MDA Depts of Computer Science and Community Medicine, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden

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