Interpreting and managing risk in a machine bureaucracy: professional decision-making in NHS Direct.

Since the early 1990s there has been an active movement towards scientific - bureaucratic medicine which incorporates accumulated biomedical research evidence with the use of algorithmic rules in order to specify clinical action and reduce variation in practice. Health professionals' claims to autho...

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Published in:Health, Risk & Society Vol. 8; no. 3; pp. 257 - 272
Main Author: Ruston A
Format: research Journal Article
Published: Taylor & Francis Ltd Sep2006
Online Access:View this record in EBSCOhost