What Is a Clinical Algorithm?

Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary: Springfield, Mass., G. C. Merriam Company, 1970 .

the Editors of Patient Care have published a series of patient care flow charts dealing with a wide variety of medical problems. The flow charts are found in Patient Care from September 1971 through May. 1973.

Vickery, D.M. , and Fries, J.F. : Take Care of Yoursetf—a Consumer's Guide to Medical Care. Reading, Mass., Addison Wesley Publishing Company, 1976.

Tufo, H.M. , and Burger, C.S. : A diagnosis and treatment system for office aides. Patient Care 5: 129, 1970.

Komaroff, A.L. , el al.: Protocols for physician assistants . N. Engl. J. Med. 290: 307, 1974.

Sox, H.C. , Sox, C.H. , and Tompkins, R.K. : The training of physician's assistants. N. Engl. J. Med. 288: 818, 1973.

AMOS (Automated Military Outpatient System) Project, Biomedical Consultant Branch, Office of the Surgeon General. For information contact Capt. D. M. Vickery, Dewitt Army Hospital, Fort Belvoir, Virginia, 22060.

Parker, A.W. : The Dimensions of Primary Care: Blueprints for Change. In: Primary Care. S. Atidreopoulos , Ed. New York, John Wiley & Sons, 1974, pP 15-17.

United States Department of Health, Education and Welfare. Towards a Comprehensive Health Policy for the 1970's: A White Paper. Washington, DC, Government Printing Office, 1971.

Richardson, F.M. : Methodological development of a system of medical audit. Med. Care. 10: 451, 1972.

Koontz, J. : Another way of looking. Dialogue, a Kansas Journal of Health Concerns 2: 15, 1975.