Requirements for technology. As seen by providers of primary health care.
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.
D003657:Decision Making; D006076:Government; D006295:Health Resources; D011320:Primary Health Care / Q000379:methods*; D012017:Referral and Consultation; D013672:Technology; D013673:Technology Assessment, Biomedical; D014481:United States