caa a22 4500 386355851 CHVBK 20180307111852.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e198904 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S0266462300006437 doi S0266462300006437 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S0266462300006437 Tymstra Tjeerd Groningen, The Netherlands The Imperative Character of Medical Technology and the Meaning of "Anticipated Decision Regret” [Elektronische Daten] [Tjeerd Tymstra] Medical-technical possibilities are often experienced as being strongly compelling. This imperative character of medical technology not only applies to the medical profession, but also to patients who frequently find it very difficult to refuse medical examinations or treatments. This article discusses the technological imperative with regard to patients. It attempts to discover relationships with decision theory, particularly concerning "anticipated decision regret:” The fact that prevention of regret plays an important role in the use of medical technology is illustrated through a number of examples: liver transplantation, prenatal diagnosis, screening, and in vitro fertilization. Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1989 International Journal of Technology Assessment in Health Care Cambridge University Press 5/2(1989-04), 207-213 0266-4623 5:2<207 1989 5 THC https://doi.org/10.1017/S0266462300006437 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0266462300006437 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Tymstra Tjeerd Groningen, The Netherlands NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- International Journal of Technology Assessment in Health Care Cambridge University Press 5/2(1989-04), 207-213 0266-4623 5:2<207 1989 5 THC CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge