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algorithm
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Blink, by Malcolm Gladwell
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- So he fed hundreds of cases into a computer, looking at what kinds of things actually predicted a heart attack, and came up with an algorithm—an equation—that he believed would take much of the guesswork out of treating chest pain.†
Chpt 4algorithm = precise instructions specifying how to solve some problem
- He took Goldman's algorithm, presented it to the doctors in the Cook County ED and the doctors in the Department of Medicine, and announced that he was holding a bake-off.†
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- Then they would use Goldman's algorithm, and the diagnosis and outcome of every patient treated under the two systems would be compared.†
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- The algorithm guessed right more than 95 percent of the time.†
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- In 2001, Cook County Hospital became one of the first medical institutions in the country to devote itself full-time to the Goldman algorithm for chest pain, and if you walk into the Cook County ER, you'll see a copy of the heart attack decision tree posted on the wall.†
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- But what does the Goldman algorithm say?†
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- But the algorithm says he shouldn't be.†
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- What Goldman's algorithm indicates, though, is that the role of those other factors is so small in determining what is happening to the man right now that an accurate diagnosis can be made without them.†
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- Anyone can follow an algorithm.
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- The algorithm doesn't feel right.†
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- The algorithm is a rule that protects the doctors from being swamped with too much information—the same way that the rule of agreement protects improv actors when they get up onstage.†
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- The algorithm frees doctors to attend to all of the other decisions that need to be made in the heat of the moment: If the patient isn't having a heart attack, what is wrong with him?†
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Definitions:
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(1)
(algorithm) precise instructions specifying how to solve some problem
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)