A new method of planning drug therapy is described. The method employs so-called decision tables, which have been used effectively in commercial and scientific data processing for over a decade. The decision tables seem to provide a simpler, clearer and more concise means of expressing the complexity and logic of the therapeutic decision making process. The use of decision tables is illustrated by an example involving therapeutic regimens in hypertensive disease.
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