Overview
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Robert S. Reneman
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Medical Faculty, Biomedical Centre, University of Limburg, Maastricht, The Netherlands
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Jan Strackee
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Medical Faculty, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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Table of contents (11 chapters)
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- L. H. van der Tweel, J. Verburg
Pages 11-51
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- Richard B. King, James B. Bassingthwaighte
Pages 79-113
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- Henk G. Goovaerts, Henk H. Ros, Hans Schneider
Pages 181-205
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- Jan Strackee, Adriaan van Oosterom
Pages 227-258
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- Linda Reynolds, Herbert Spencer, Robert S. Reneman
Pages 279-322
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Back Matter
Pages 323-330
About this book
Nowadays clinical medicine is to a great extent dependent on techniques and instrumentation. Not infrequently, instrumentation is so complicated that technical specialists are required to perform the measurements and to process the data. Interpretation of the results, however, generally has to be done by physicians. For proper interpretation of data and good com munication with technical specialists, knowledge of, among other things, principle, advantages, limitations and applicability of the used techniques is necessary. Besides, this knowledge is required for critical comparison of systems to measure a certain variable. Critical evaluation as well as com parison of techniques and instruments ought to be an essential component of medical practice. In general, basic techniques and instrumentation are not taught in medi cal schools nor during residencies. Therefore, physicians themselves have to collect practical information about principle, advantages and limitations of techniques and instruments when using them in clinical medicine. This practical information, focussed on the specific techniques used in the various disciplines, is usually difficult to obtain from handbooks and manufacturers' manuals. Hence a new series of books is started on instru mentation and techniques in clinical medicine.
Editors and Affiliations
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Medical Faculty, Biomedical Centre, University of Limburg, Maastricht, The Netherlands
Robert S. Reneman
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Medical Faculty, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Jan Strackee
